>while I have no problem still using vfp whenever I find a suitable task, using SOAP via toolkit was one of the first things I dropped. Not knowing your special circumstances I caanot go into detail, but on the client side I use vfp earliest after XML is in a file. Server side, today other tools offer much more - down to installable demo kits auto-generated with tomcat sever into an ISO with bindings for java and dotnet in case of Axxis for instance. Newer ways to incorporate security and so on.

Yes, of course, we are light years ahead of that today.

This was to fix a legacy app that has been there for 15 years so to reforward an insert command into our .NET framework. That is a temporarily measure until this legacy app is fully removed.