Dale,
Just after I posted this, I continued my surfing, and like you have all the pdf's here ... Tons of reading.

but I recall www.foxcentral.net, which has some basic mssoap examples on how to get .net data into vfp as cursors. Finding that was a big help, I think... It looks like the UPS xml data streams are going to be wrapped in soap messages.. but back to my reading.

Glad to know I am not alone.

When - its not if. but when I find something specific, Ill be glad to share it. My project is not for rate calculations, but specifically for the time in transit functions. so thats the area that I am going to focus on.

Thanks
Bob Lee



>Bob,
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>Glad to hear someone else is diving into UPS Online tools. I've been reading everything I could find on the subject, for the last couple months, which hasn't been much. Their couple hundred page pdf file is definitely not meant to be a training manual!
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>The "tools" give an example using Java, but I'm not interested in commiting valuable time to learning another language right now. VBScript and JavaScript look pretty easy to learn, but I'd much rather use VFP.
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>The question has popped up here and West-Wind on a few occasions but as far as I can tell, no one has it working with VFP. A few have said they're working on it but I haven't heard any success stories yet.
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>I am determined to have it working within a month or die trying. So, if you have any luck on your end, would you mind sharing? I'll do the same, if you're interested.
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>I've looked at the link that Leland Jackson pointed you to in his reply. It looks pretty easy, but, UPS is not listed. FedEx is, and this was the second project on my list after UPS, so I'm going to check it out.
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>Dale
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>>Has anyone real world worked with these formats yet ? using VFP. At devcon, I saw Ken an crew show us all that in 15 minutes this type of application could be consumed using VFP7 ...But becuase it was all too new , and I wasnt being faced with the need for it, much of what was talked about ... how should I saw. was interesting, for the future.
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>>We boys and girls. the future is here, its out of the test labs, of MS and IBM and Sun and its actually being used in business.
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>>Samples, Links, White papers, examples....
>>anything.....
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>>Bob Lee