Does anyone know how to use MS SOAP toolkit?

Question

I know that the Microsoft SOAP toolkit has been deprecated for a while now (.NET has all this stuff built in) but I was wondering in anyone has a quick bit of info on setting up a simple app that uses it. I was referred to http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/Cplusplus/Building-A-SOAP-Client-With-Visual-C-plus/ but the service in the example is no longer functioning and I can't seem to find any documentation online.

I've looked into gSoap, but it seems overly complicated for what I have to do and despite not being able to get it to work, the SOAP toolkit seems (relatively) elegant.

Answer 1

Don't do it. It's 5 years deprecated, and it was 2 years out of date when it became deprecated. Don't.

Assuming you are running on Windows (since you mentioned the MS SOAP Toolkit), use the imminently-arriving WWSAPI instead.

Also see this post: http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2009/03/31/interested-in-using-web-services-in-your-native-c-c-code.aspx

EDIT: If you want something more basic, you can use MSXML and build your SOAP requests manually.

Answer 2

Really. "Deprecated" is not the word for it. It's at the top of my list of obsolete web service technologies:

1. SOAP Toolkit
2. WSE 1.0
3. WSE 2.0

4. WSE 3.0

5. ASMX - not quite obsolete. Just "legacy".