Windows Web Services

Posted By: Yochay Kiriaty | Jan 9th @ 2:41 PM | 56,909 Views | 11 Comments

With Windows Web Services, you can create applications that communicate easily with a local computer or a remote Web service. Windows Web Services is a native-code implementation of SOAP and provides core network communication by supporting a broad set of the Web services (WS) family of protocols. Windows Web Services is a peer to Windows Communication Foundation (WCF – managed-code Web services), and provides a high-performance subset of WCF functionality.

Watch Yochay Kiriaty, Windows 7 Technical Evangelist, and Windows Web Services API PM Nikola Dudar as we explain the Windows native Web Services APIs, and why Microsoft created a new set of Web Services APIs when we have WCF. For more technical content on Windows 7 and few cool code samples, go to the Windows 7 Blog for Developers.

You can always watch the Windows 7: Web Services in Native Code PDC session in case you missed the live session

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#Feb 17th @ 4:36 PM
fossil
fossil
I know this is the last thing anyone wants to hear... but how about a COM wrapper and WSDL compiler for VB6?  .Net Interop is a clunky and expensive alternative, and WWSAPI adoption rates might climb radically with such an enhancement.

I won't hold my breath.
#Apr 6th @ 5:34 PM
Nikola.Dudar
Nikola.Dudar

Re: gSOAP
If you are using gSOAP today on Windows to talk to web services or build a web service in native code, you should be able to switch to use WWSAPI right away. Give a try and if you see any issues or have comments, please let us know using forums, http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/wwsapi/threads/

Re: VB6
Thanks for bringing this scenario to our attention. In design of the API, we have focused on C/C++ developers. You are right that it should be possible to build COM wrapper around the API to make it available to VB6. This can be an interesting CodePlex project useful for many VB6 developers. As for out of the box support for VB6, this is not in our plans at this moment.

Thanks,
Nikola

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