VB6 in ASP.NET Web Service

Question

I am creating a simple chat program....with a server and client. I use ASP.NET Web Service for server and vb.6 for client.....can anyone help to on how read the return xml file of my web service.asmx. example for my web service.asmx : Public Function AddNumber(byref a as integer, byref b as integer) as integer return a + b end Function now...how to make a vb.6 client to access this method above. Please help with this issues. Thanks, Rogelio

spgilmore · Answer

If you were to do this whole thing yourself you would have to use the Win32 API socket functions to establish a socket connection to the server send a request then receive the response. You would also have to generate the request to send and process the response you get back using an XML DOM implementation. I recommend using a prebuilt solution. The first choice for non-.NET-enabled environments and older compilers without new SOAP support seems to be the Microsoft SOAP Toolkit version 3. This is a COM implementation that works with VB6. Download it free from Microsoft. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c943c0dd-ceec-4088-9753-86f052ec8450&displaylang=en