>>Actually, yes, thats what I meant. But now that I think about it, thats not required. You don't need all of VFP7, what you can do, is move your COM DLL to the server computer and register it. Then, under the SOAP toolkit start menu option (SOAP toolkit needs to be installed on the server too, BTW) you should be able to run the "WSDL Generator" from the toolkit and would publish your web service based on the COM.

I am not ready to install SOAP SP2 again until I understand why it trashed Visual Studio.

Can I register the com dll from my machine to the web server on the netwowrk? If so, how?