>I have been asked to write a .net Web Service that will just receive some parameter string, and call my VFP web service with that string.
>The thing is that i do not work with .net at all, so is there some easy way to do this without visual studio?
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>Thanks
>Jaime

It's not really clear what you're asking. So you already have a VFP web service running? Then why do you need the .NET web service?

If you're really asking "how can I create a Web Service that can call my VFP code", well, it depends. What protocol are you going to use for the web service? SOAP? Or is it really just a web page that takes a couple of parameters in the URL or POSTed? If it needs to be a SOAP-based web service of any complexity, then it's going to be much easier to do it in .NET (a basic WS is really easy to do).Or if the client-side is expecting some kind of auto-discovery of the service (so it can automatically build proxy-objects), then you'll want to use .NET.

If it's as simple as you say (and you're not going to need to pass more complex objects from/to the service), then you could use any of the VFP-based web frameworks (WebConnection, FoxWeb, ActiveVFP, etc) to build it and just manually parse/build the SOAP request/response. Or, if it's just a simple web page you wouldn't have to do any parsing at all, usually just a call to the framework's Request.QueryString or Request.Form class methods.