I am a new developer in an academic environment working on a project for
graduation.  I appreciate any help anyone can give me!

I have tried to use good programming techniques and split up my application
into different tiers:  Win (windows client), WS (web service), DAL (data
access layer), and Common (where i store all of my common classes and data
sets).

I have a class in my Common tier that is called User.  It has some members
and also has two functions in it.

I have a web method called GetUser() and it returns a value of type
Common.User.

In my Win application I want to consume the web service and return a user of
the Common.User type such as this example:
Dim CurrentUser as new Common.User
CurrentUser = CType(UsersWS.GetUser(), Common.User)

My problem comes because I am getting an error in the conversion:  [Value of
type 'UsersWS.User' cannot be converted to 'Common.User'].  This is really
frustrating because if I make the CurrentUser variable of type UsersWS.User,
then I can't use the functions that I have built into the Users class, only
the data members.

I have thought of everything and even changed my declaration of the class
User in my Common Tier to:

<Serializable()> Public Class User : Inherits System.MashalByRefObject

so that an object of this type could cross application domains.

--I'm not sure what to do at this point but I would love for that conversion
to work. Maybe I am just missing something simple (hopefully!).

Anyhow,  thanks for any help!

Ed