Session Summary

In this session, we will discuss how to implement and access Web Services using VB 6.0 and the SOAP Toolkit for Visual Studio. The following key topics will be addressed during this presentation:

•	An introduction to Web Services
•	An overview of the Distributed Object Infrastructures and limitations of using it to implement true distributed applications in an Internet environment
•	An overview of the SOAP specification and its design goals
•	SOAP messaging and the role of XML
•	Advantages and limitations of SOAP
•	An introduction to the Visual Studio SOAP Toolkit
•	Implementing and accessing Web Services using Visual Basic 6.0 and the SOAP toolkit

This is a Level 200 (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=gp;en-us;webcastlevels&sd=gn) session that was recordedDecember 21, 2000 and presented by Karthik Ravindran. Karthik Ravindran joined Microsoft as a Visual Basic Database Developer Support Professional in November 1999. He holds a Master's degree in information technology, and is an MCSD certified in Visual Basic 6.0, Visual InterDev, and SQL Server. Prior to joining the Product Support Services team at Microsoft, he was a client/server developer who specialized in designing and implementing two- and three-tier Windows DNA applications using Visual Basic. He recently obtained the MCP+SB certification status.

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