>Trying to trouble shoot a SOAP problem, I went to download the SOAP installer from microsoft and saw this notice:
>The Microsoft SOAP Toolkit is deprecated by the .NET Framework. SOAP Toolkit support will be retired in April 2005.
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>I am wondering what the alternative is to a VFP developer? Manually create wrappers for our COM objects using ASP.NET? Or de we just happily continue using SOAP?

You can go into VS.NET, create a web service client, expose it as a COM object, and call it from VFP. The VFP team is working on ways to make this easier for VFP developers in the future. For the SOAP Toolkit...

From http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/productinfo/faq/default.aspx

Q: How long will the SOAP Toolkit included in Visual FoxPro 9.0 be supported by Microsoft?

A: Licensed users of Visual FoxPro 9.0 have a special lifecycle support plan for the SOAP Toolkit, supported by Microsoft on the same support plan as Visual FoxPro 8.0 which is through December 2008 and extended support through December 2013.