I want to bind a RadGrid to a web service without using Linq. In all examples I can find, the web service has to return a List(Of MyObject); I've tried this, and it works great. However, the table I'm binding to may at runtime have additional columns, or columns may have different data type, so I can't use a static MyObject class to represent the table at compile time. I also don't know at compile time which columns need to be displayed in the grid. I would like to bind to a web service for performance reasons.
I've tried having the web service method return a DataView, and cast it a lot of different ways, but it's not working. How would I write the GetData / GetDataAndCount method of the web service to return the data from a DataView or other non-linq data source?
Thanks.