April 2006
Beginner
1114 pages
98h 16m
English
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Use the Web Services Toolkit
Excel doesn’t come with the Web Services Toolkit installed. In order to use web services from Visual Basic for Applications, you must first follow these steps:
Find the Microsoft Office Web Services Toolkit from Microsoft by searching for “Web Services Toolkit” at www.microsoft.com/downloads.
Download the Web Services Toolkit installation program (setup.exe).
Run the downloaded installation program and follow the steps provided by the Setup Wizard.
Start Excel and open the Visual Basic Editor.
In Visual Basic, select Web References from the Tools menu. Visual Basic displays the Microsoft Office Web Services Toolkit references dialog shown in Figure 24-9.
Figure 24-9. Use the Microsoft Office Web Services Toolkit to create a web reference
When you create a web reference, the Web Services Toolkit automatically adds references to the Microsoft Office SOAP type library and the Microsoft XML library. Then, the toolkit generates proxy classes for the web service. To see how this works, follow these steps:
From the Visual Basic Tools menu, select Web References.
Select Web Service URL and type the following line in the text box below that option:
http://api.google.com/GoogleSearch.wsdlClick Search. The Web Services Toolkit displays the web services available from Google as shown in Figure 24-10.
Figure 24-10. Creating a reference to the Google web service
Select GoogleSearchService ...
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