You could Create a class called MyString add a parameterless constructor and an implicit cast public static implicit operator string (MyString A) { return A._internalStringVariable; } public static implicit operator MyString (String S) { return new MyString(S); } Then you'll have an object that behaves a bit like a string but has a parameterless constructor. HTH Russ

Hi, as usual string seems to get a special treatment :). Probably there are some more case where switch works, but the fact remains that its rather limited (compared to some other languages). Robert

Guffa, thanks for the reply. I kind of figured that. I guess I will store the response from the webservice in a session vaiable and then just redisplay the headlines on postback.