Good idea Kirk.

It would also provide a place to get information about performance expectations/characteristics for Web Services stuff.

Jim Nelson

>I'd like to see a category started or maybe there is already an area setup for the discussion of webservices from within visual foxpro.
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>I have been playing with the webservices on xmethods.com. Most of them won't register within VFP 7 under the Intellisense/webservices and I only get a pretty broad error message. I have had getting a handful to register, but not understanding what the results are.
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>I think if there was a white paper or document out there, that as someone successfully uses a service using VFP and example of the code used (representing available methods with parameter types passed and returned result explained) would be very helpful as this becomes more popular.
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>So far, I can validate an zipcode / address combination, get the tempature for a zip code and get an html listing of current headlines from msn. But in the future I think there will be more and as the VFP community pitches in we can grow together.
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>Thanks
>Kirk