Hello ThinkGeo-Team,
I know this is not a GIS specific question but maybe you guys can answer it.
Our clients communicate to our GIS-Feature-Server via web services. On the server side we have implemented ThinkGeo-Layer classes to get the data from different data sources e.g. shapefile, database..... At the moment we copy the feature collection we get from ThinkGeo FeatureSource method GetFeaturesInsideBoundingBox() into a DataSet and deliver it via web service to our clients. At the client side we covert the data back from DataSet to feature collection. The time to convert feature collection to/from Dataset decreases our performance.
We tried to deliver the Feature-Collection as web service result but FeatureSourceColumn implements the IDictionary interface so the xml-serialization fails.
Is there a way I can serialize the Feature-Collection?
Thomas