12.7. VB 6 Clients

So far this chapter has focused on invoking VB services from other clients. Starting with this section, we turn things around and look at invoking Web services from VB 6 clients and VB .NET. This section covers VB 6 clients; the next section covers VB .NET clients.

The Microsoft SOAP Toolkit team is an active participant in the SOAP interop efforts outlined earlier in this chapter. As a result, clients using the toolkit can call just about any Web service out there. In some cases, the Web service you want to call will have some quirky aspects that make it difficult or impossible to call with the high level API. For example, the service might have a bad WSDL document or none at all. In these cases, you can use the toolkit's ...

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