Thank you Guy. Your walkthrough was very helpful.

>>I've been trying to get through the samples included with VS.NET but I am
having a great deal of difficulty. I am following the directions for "Walkthrough: Creating an XML Web Service Using Visual Basic or Visual C#" in the help file verbatim, but the damned thing just won't work!
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>Have you looked at my UT article ?
>http://www.levelextreme.com/Magazine/August2001/Page9.asp