In my current code, I find myself accessing many Sharepoint web services. In one run of code I can access 5-6 different web services on dozens of different sites, not necessarily even on the same server. Given that I find myself writing a lot of boilerplate code looking like this: using (SiteData siteDataWS...

When we call the GetListItems or GetListItemChanges methods in Sharepoint's Lists Web Service, we pass an XmlNode parameter specifying which fields we want to return, in this format: <ViewFields> <FieldRef Name="ows_ID"/> </ViewFields> Now, if we leave this field as null , we get a...