>You forgot to instantiate the object. Here's the correct code (plus the checking for nothing if you still want to do that):
>

>Dim loContext As SoapContext
>loContext = New SoapContext()
>If Not (loContext Is Nothing) Then
>   loContext = HttpSoapContext.ResponseContext
>End If
>

This generates an error on the 2nd line. First, the parentheses are not kept. Then, the error is underlining "New SoapContext".