Can't access methods

[wrecker]

Hi all,

I'm fairly new to webservices so bear with me while I try to explain
my problem. I've created a class for users that I'm using in my
webservice (sorry, its all in VB)

public class User
private _Name as string
private _Type ' bitwise flag

' public properties

public function IsAdministrator() as boolean
' bitwise manipulation to determine if user is admin
' if success return true else return false
end function
end class

I'm referencing this class in my web service and have no problems
accessing the properties or the methods.

The problem is on the client side. Because I'm pulling the User class
into my web service and I've added a web reference for the service,
any user object I create is derived from that

dim myUser as myWebservice.User

When I use the myUser object I can access all the properties but I
can't access any of the methods

dim userName as string
userName = myUser.Name 'OK

dim flag as boolean
flag = myUser.IsAdministrator() 'Error

The above gives the error "IsAdminstrator is not a member of User"

Why can I access all the properties and not the methods? Is this
because I'm deriving through the web service and only the properties
are being passed in the xml?

I hope that explaination was understandable

Thanks

Ren