Here is an example on using vb.net to access google's web service:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vbtchAccessingGooglewithVB.asp


also, a basic 'how to consume a web service in vb.net':

http://www.dotnet4all.com/default.asp?NavID=513

tracy

>How do you consume a web service within a VB.NET windows application? If I have a web service with an operation called "mood" which takes no params and returns the following in a browser.
>

>  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
>  <anyType xmlns:q1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" d1p1:type="q1:string"
>xmlns:d1p1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://localhost/zippy">Happy</anyType>
>

>What needs to be done? Is this faux example a pure fantasy?
>

>private function GetMyOp() as string
>    dim foo as webservice = "http://localhost/zippy"
>    if GotINetConnection() then
>        GetMyOp = foo.mood
>    endif
>end function
>

>
>My thanks,