SOAP and VB.NET

[Julian McMaster]

Here's what I need to do. I have to consume a web service using a Windows
client application. I want to write the application using VB.NET. I have
some experience with earlier versions of VB, and I have the new software
loaded. I'm just not sure how to get started. I've searched the Internet
and there appears to be dozens of ways to accomplish this, but none of the
examples are complete. The web service is at an external site and was
created with .NET...it's a .asmx file.

If anyone can point me to a good, thorough tutorial or book or
examples/downloads using VB.NET to consume a web service, I'd greatly
appreciate it.

Thank you,
Julian

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Julian,

Forever called by me the best walkthrough there is on MSDN
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...atingDistributedWebApplicationWalkthrough.asp

I hope this helps?

Cor

 

[Guest]

The Code Project has an article called "Consuming Web Services from a Win
Forms Application" available at
http://www.codeproject.com/cs/webservices/cpwebserviceconsumer.asp. Its code
samples are in C#, but not too complex. Sorry if this is a problem.

Hope this helps,
Phil Harvey

 

[Guest]

Jan. 7, 2005

Microsoft Press XML Web Services Step By Step is really easy and
simple to learn on. I have found MSPress books have been really detailed and
useful... to the tune of reading over 6,200 pages in one year!


Joseph MCAD

 

[S. Daum]

On this page, near the bottom, is a link that will display a short movie
about creating and consuming a web service:

http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/atthemovies/web/default.aspx

There is more to learn - but this shows the basic process you will use and
perhaps give you a place to start.

 

[Julian McMaster]

That's very helpful, makes sense! I was trying to follow along, but found
that I don't have a reference to a specific class in the demo:

Dim ws As New WebService.servicename

I don't have WebService in my available classes, only {}web, {}windows, and
{}xml. Sorry for such a fundamental question, but I none of the references
I added by Project>Add Reference fixed this.

Thank you,
Julian