Receiving a DTO From an ASP.NET Web Service

Question

If I run ASP.NET, and I am accessing a foreign asmx web service that returns a List of Person objects, where Person is some DTO defined by the foreign company, then what is the

Answer 1

Define your own DTO and map the foreign object (from a proxy class or something) to your own. Take only what you need. This gives you a layer of abstraction from the webservice if it ever changes.

http://automapper.codeplex.com/ might be helpful for the mappings.