The official word on DataSet.HasErrors HasProblems
For those of you on the edge of your seats after the cliff-hanger ending to my post about Web Service errors when DataSets contain Error rows (HasErrors = true), I'm happy to report the results of our contact with Microsoft about the issue. After weaving through automated phone trees and navigating the layers of friendly customer service personnel, the fix to the issue is due out in Service Pack 1 of the .Net Framework 1.1. The Service Pack isn't going to be officially available for a month or two, but for customers needing a solution to the Web Service issue I encountered, you can download the 1.1.4322.918 version of System.Data.Dll (replacing 1.1.4322.573 that shipped with Framework 1.1) from Microsoft -- just contact them to get it (I suppose I could share the installer files if you really needed them, but I'm thinking MSFT would rather you got it from them directly).
After the telephone leg-work with Microsoft, rather than install the HotFix on all the various machines, I think we're just going forward with the SOAP Serialization work-around I outlined in the previous post. Just the same, it's good to know a long term solution is in the works from the good folks in Redmond.