Cubes and .Net applications

What are the pros and cons of accessing the data in a cube through a visual studio 2005 .net application?Are you referring to a .NET 2.0 application (since Visual Studio 2005 is a development environment) - if so, that's rather an abstract question? Could you provide more specifics of the application usage scenarios you have in mind?|||Yes, I am referring to a .NET 2.0 application. Normally, our .NET application uses a webservice to runs sqls to retrieve data for reports in the application. I would like to know what is involved in retrieving data from the cube using a webservice. Is it more involved? Are there any benefits or risks to using a cube to retrieve data for a report in a .NET application versus just using DB2 databases? We currently retrieve our data from DB2 databases.