Binding a gridview to a web service

[StevenB]

Hi folks,

I'm a complete .NET newbie, in way over my head. I'm familiar with some of the .NET concepts, but I only know enough to be dangerous. I'm currently faced with the task of writing a .NET form that will basically retrieve some data from a vendor-provided web service and display it in grid format.

I've added a web reference to the service. No problem so far. The service provides an operation called ExecuteSQLtoXML, that takes a GUID, password, and a SQL string, and returns an XML document with the data. The vendor provided this little snippet of code for information purposes, although when I threw this in my page_load, it didn't like the Xml.XmlNode bit:

Dim nCan As Xml.XmlNode = mySoap.ExecuteSQLToXML(sql, guid, password)

Right now, the form I have created has essentially nothing but a GridView object. After a few hours of googling and looking at various tutorials, I've realized that I simply have no idea how to tell the GridView to use the results of the ExecuteSQLtoXML operation.

I realize I'm probably missing about 500 fundamental concepts I should understand between here and there, but FWIW this is where I stand right now.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Steve

 

[DotNetGnat]

you have posted your question in the wrong forum. try ASP.NET forum...

-DNG

 

[StevenB]

*grumble*

I swear, I thought I looked for a .NET forum.



Appreciate the gentle nudge.