>Creating an ASP .NET app allows you to work directly with a web site. The web services I have created have consisted of simple interfaces to date; which is easily done in either VB .NET or C#. i.e., there was no demonstrable advantage to VFP since I was not using the local data engine. When I say natively, I mean that I don't have to go through the process of creating the app components and then go through another set of steps in exposing it through the SOAP Toolkit. Functionally, does it matter? Probably not. As a developer, does it matter? I think it does. Creating web services in .NET to me, is a more seamless process.

Yes, it helps. So, if I understand correctly, in .NET, we don't have to do an extra step such as using the WSDL generator to generate the WSDL file. Basically, you just update your code, compile and you're ready to go. So, this should ease the manipulation of the files from the development environment to the server as, at least, as the WSDL generation step is builtin in .NET.