The Web reference of a .NET project now works with the UT WS. I have updated the VB.NET sample in our http://www.levelextreme.com/WebService.asp page. Basically, all is needed, is after the instantiation of the Web Service, is the addition of this line:

Dim loUT As UniversalThread.UniversalThread = New UniversalThread.UniversalThread
loUT.CookieContainer = New System.Net.CookieContainer

By default, the cookie container is off. So, we have to enable it so it can grab any cookie sent to it on the client side.

Here's how it looks:

' This assume the Web reference has been added in the project under this name
Dim loUT As UniversalThread.UniversalThread = New UniversalThread.UniversalThread

Dim llLogged AS Boolean
Dim lcXML As String

' Create the cookie container
loUT.CookieContainer = New System.Net.CookieContainer

' Do the login and just show the status
llLogged = loUT.Login("myusername", "mypassword")
If llLogged Then
   MessageBox.Show("Login successfull!")
   Else
   MessageBox.Show("Login failed!")
End If

' Call a method as an example to retrieve the latest .NET news for the last 15 days
lcXML = loUT.GetNews(DateAdd("d", -15, Date.Today), Date.Today(), 44)

' Just show the XML string that was returned
MessageBox.Show(lcXML)