posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 8:40 AM by demiliani

SOAP Toolkit will be deprecated

The Microsoft SOAP Toolkit is deprecated by the .NET Framework. The toolkit provides basic Web services capabilities for COM components and applications. SOAP Toolkit support will be retired on July 1, 2004.

Why this choice? SOAP Toolkit was a valid solution for consuming Web Services with VB6 or ASP applications. Is it a good choice?

However, this is an interesting article on how to access a Web service from both Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual Basic .NET, and how to convert your existing SOAP applications to the Microsoft .NET platform:

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