web service

Hi all,
I have created an xml web service which at the moment has one procedure which gets some data from database and returns the dataset to the vb.net form. But this is a very slow process. I do not see why this is the case? Do you know what I should be looking at to investigate this further? Thanks

IS it slow the FIRST time it loads?

Yes, this will be the case, because it may need to recompliled when you are testing it.

A refresh should only take a second or less.

If it is still slow, its either your code, or your network, or your database procedures.