Web Reference in Visual Basic 6?

[EltonHenley]

I understand the .NET stuff has Add-> Web Reference capability built in, where you simply supply the WSDL URL to the wizard but is there any way to do create a Web Reference in Visual Basic 6?

...if not, how can I do this using another method in Visual Basic 6?

Basically, the 3rd party company we wish to interact with has given us the WSDL URL, and two methods - sendRequest() and getResponse().

What about the following with the Inet control:

Dim PostData As String
    Dim Headers As String
 
    Inet1.Protocol = icHTTPS
    Inet1.RemoteHost = "companywebsite.com"
    Inet1.RemotePort = 443
    Inet1.Document = "/stspost"
    Inet1.UserName = "userID"
    Inet1.Password = "password"
    
    PostData = "sendRequest=REQUEST GOES HERE (FIXED-LENGTH TEXT)"
    Headers = "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" & vbCrLf
    
    Inet1.Execute , "Post", PostData, Headers

Thanks for any help you guys can give!

[EltonHenley]

Well, I got that to actually submit and get some feedback, but now it's coming back in XML, apparently. Here's what dumps to the textbox:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<SOAP-ENV:Fault>
<faultcode>SOAP-ENV:Client</faultcode>
<faultstring>parsing error: oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLParseException: Start of root element expected.</faultstring>
<faultactor>/web-services/Auth</faultactor>
</SOAP-ENV:Fault>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

Not sure, but maybe it's time to just go ahead and jump into .NET.

Money-wise, it's no problem for me to get the company to purchase Visual Studio 2005 Standard, since it's only around $250, but how difficult is it to migrate Visual Basic 6 projects over? I've heard it's easier than with older versions of .NET, but I would like some feedback.

[EltonHenley]

I'm downloading Visual Basic 2005 Express now, just to see how it works. I'm assuming I can't compile, etc. with it.

Is there any way to purchase Visual Basic 2005 Standard by itself, as I don't need VC++, J#, etc.? I can only find Visual Studio 2005.

[EltonHenley]

Visual Basic 2005 is a whole new can of worms so...


I downloaded the SOAP Toolkit 3 and I may be getting somewhere.

Dim Client As SoapClient30      ' SOAP Client
     Dim Results As IXMLDOMSelection ' All the results.
     Dim MainNode As IXMLDOMNode     ' High-level nodes.
     Dim ItemList As IXMLDOMNodeList ' All the result items.
     Dim ItemNode As IXMLDOMNode     ' Result item nodes.
     Dim DataList As IXMLDOMNodeList ' All the data items.
     Dim DataNode As IXMLDOMNode     ' One data item.
     
    ' Initialize the SOAP client.
     Set Client = New SoapClient30
    
    Client.MSSoapInit "https://www.company/web-services/Auth?WSDL", "auth"
 
    strPacket = "FIXED-FIELD TEXT HERE"
 
     ' Make the request.
     Set Results = Client.sendRequest(strPacket)

Looks like it's at least recognizing the "sendRequest" method and talking to the server. Howerver, I now get the following message:

No Deserializer found to deserialize a ':msgString' using encoding style 'http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/'. [java.lang.IllegalArgumentException]

Any help would be appreciated!