jenlion
IS-IT--Management
- Nov 13, 2001
- 215
God, I hate being a newb again!
I have successfully avoided all this web-service stuff that started in with programming when I jumped from being a standalone VB6 app programmer to a SQL person. But it turns out that while I've been gone from the developing world, things, um, changed.
I need to create and send XML to a given URL and accept and use the response they give me.
I have no clue how to do that, though I believe this is reputed to be "simple" in vb.net.
I have DTDs for this, and I've done some stuff with XML before (mostly moving it into or out of my DB!). And I've done plenty of development (in C++ and VB, haha!). But this stuff is all new.
I have access to anything the good MSDN will provide and am downloading VS2008 right now. Once I fire it up, though, I don't really know what to do next. This program will not be something a user ever sees; I will need to trigger it when a new condition occurs in my database. So, if I can create a simple exe with no real UI that's fine. Then I need it to create this xml file and send it off to a given URL. (I think I've learned the proper term is "post", but correct me if not).
How's that done? If I can get a generic example I can go from there. I can pass it variables when I call the program, or I can have the program talk to the DB (are people still using ADO?) and get the info, I don't care. I'm just struggling to get the first-steps off the ground.
TIA!
I have successfully avoided all this web-service stuff that started in with programming when I jumped from being a standalone VB6 app programmer to a SQL person. But it turns out that while I've been gone from the developing world, things, um, changed.
I need to create and send XML to a given URL and accept and use the response they give me.
I have no clue how to do that, though I believe this is reputed to be "simple" in vb.net.
I have DTDs for this, and I've done some stuff with XML before (mostly moving it into or out of my DB!). And I've done plenty of development (in C++ and VB, haha!). But this stuff is all new.
I have access to anything the good MSDN will provide and am downloading VS2008 right now. Once I fire it up, though, I don't really know what to do next. This program will not be something a user ever sees; I will need to trigger it when a new condition occurs in my database. So, if I can create a simple exe with no real UI that's fine. Then I need it to create this xml file and send it off to a given URL. (I think I've learned the proper term is "post", but correct me if not).
How's that done? If I can get a generic example I can go from there. I can pass it variables when I call the program, or I can have the program talk to the DB (are people still using ADO?) and get the info, I don't care. I'm just struggling to get the first-steps off the ground.
TIA!
