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I'm still new to the ASP.NET world, so I could be way off base here, but so far this is to the best of my (limited) knowledge! Let's say I have a standard business object "Contact" in the Business namespace. I write a Web Service to retrieve a Contact's info from a database and return it. I then write a client application to request said details. Now, I also then create a utility method that takes a "Contact" and does some magic with it, like Utils.BuyContactNewHat() say. Which of course takes the Contact of type Business.Contact . I then go back to my client application and want to utilise the BuyContactNewHat method, so I add a reference to my Utils namespace and there it is. However, a problem arises with: Contact c = MyWebService.GetContact("Rob); Utils.BuyContactNewHat(c); // << Error Here Since the return type of GetContact is of MyWebService.Contact and not Business.Contact as expected. I understand why this is because when accessing a web service, you are actually programming against the proxy class generated by the WSDL. So, is there an "easier" way to deal with this type of mismatch? I was considering perhaps trying to create a generic converter class that uses reflection to ensure two objects have the same structure than simply transferring the values across from one to the other.

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