Call a Web Service from a Visual Basic 6 Client
Problem
You need to invoke a .NET Web service from a Windows client written in Visual Basic 6.
Solution
Use the SOAP Toolkit, which provides this functionality through an easy-to-use COM library.
Discussion
The SOAP Toolkit includes a COM component that you can use to call any type of Web service that provides a valid Web Services Description Language (WSDL) document. Thus, the SOAP Toolkit supports .NET Web services and Web services created on other platforms. You can download the latest version of the SOAP Toolkit from http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/downloads/list/websrv.asp. In Visual Basic 6, you can add a reference to the SOAP Toolkit by selecting Project | References from the ...
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