Creating and Consuming Web Services in Visual Basic®

Chapter 10. Microsoft SOAP SDK

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Using the SOAP Toolkit on the Server

• Using the SOAP Toolkit on the Client

So far, Microsoft has put forward two SOAP SDKs. Version one used a whimsically named component named the Remote Object Proxy Engine, also called ROPE. In case you don't get the pun, SOAP plus ROPE is “soap on a rope.” People latched onto the Microsoft Developer Network created sample. When Microsoft saw the popularity, they decided to create a more full featured, supported library. MSDN is not a product team and does not have the mission to create this type of software. Instead, the WebData team at Microsoft took over the project and created the Microsoft SOAP Toolkit v2. WebData also owns the MSXML parser, which explains how ...