How to Access Web Service from VB6 with Intellisense in the IDE?

[Joseph Geretz]

Our application is primarily VB6, however we are migrating toward .NET and a
newer architecture. For the time being though, we're stuck with a hybrid
approach with our ActiveX client application accessing .NET Web Services
provided by the new server-side application.

We like the benefits of Intellisense in the IDE. Visual Studio .NET will
provide Intellisense for a .NET client which references and accesses a Web
Service. Unfortunately though, the VB6 IDE doesn't recognize Web Services
natively. In order to address this we've developed the following paradigm
for any VB6 client which accesses a .NET Web Service:

ActiveX Client -Interop -.NET Broker Class -.NET Web Service

By interposing a .NET broker class between the ActiveX client and the Web
Service, we achieve Intellisense at all application layers. However, the
overhead of the additional broker classes plus the need to deploy these for
Interop is starting to add up. Is there a better way of engineering

Active X Client -.NET Web Service

in such a way that we'll see Intellisense whe nbinding to the Web Service
from within the VB6 IDE?

Thanks for your advice!

- Joe Geretz -

[Joseph Geretz]

Is anyone here accessing Web Services from ActiveX (e.g. VB6) client? How do
you set this up?

Thanks for your advice.

- Joe Geretz -

"Joseph Geretz" <jg*****@nospam.comwrote in message
news:el**************@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

Our application is primarily VB6, however we are migrating toward .NET and
a newer architecture. For the time being though, we're stuck with a hybrid
approach with our ActiveX client application accessing .NET Web Services
provided by the new server-side application.

We like the benefits of Intellisense in the IDE. Visual Studio .NET will
provide Intellisense for a .NET client which references and accesses a Web
Service. Unfortunately though, the VB6 IDE doesn't recognize Web Services
natively. In order to address this we've developed the following paradigm
for any VB6 client which accesses a .NET Web Service:

ActiveX Client -Interop -.NET Broker Class -.NET Web Service

By interposing a .NET broker class between the ActiveX client and the Web
Service, we achieve Intellisense at all application layers. However, the
overhead of the additional broker classes plus the need to deploy these
for Interop is starting to add up. Is there a better way of engineering

Active X Client -.NET Web Service

in such a way that we'll see Intellisense whe nbinding to the Web Service
from within the VB6 IDE?

Thanks for your advice!

- Joe Geretz -

[Claus Konrad [MCSD]]

Have a look at this post:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups...bf4&sloc=en-us

--
rgds.
/Claus Konrad
MCSD.NET (C#)
"Joseph Geretz" wrote:

Is anyone here accessing Web Services from ActiveX (e.g. VB6) client? How do
you set this up?

Thanks for your advice.

- Joe Geretz -

"Joseph Geretz" <jg*****@nospam.comwrote in message
news:el**************@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

Our application is primarily VB6, however we are migrating toward .NET and
a newer architecture. For the time being though, we're stuck with a hybrid
approach with our ActiveX client application accessing .NET Web Services
provided by the new server-side application.

We like the benefits of Intellisense in the IDE. Visual Studio .NET will
provide Intellisense for a .NET client which references and accesses a Web
Service. Unfortunately though, the VB6 IDE doesn't recognize Web Services
natively. In order to address this we've developed the following paradigm
for any VB6 client which accesses a .NET Web Service:

ActiveX Client -Interop -.NET Broker Class -.NET Web Service

By interposing a .NET broker class between the ActiveX client and the Web
Service, we achieve Intellisense at all application layers. However, the
overhead of the additional broker classes plus the need to deploy these
for Interop is starting to add up. Is there a better way of engineering

Active X Client -.NET Web Service

in such a way that we'll see Intellisense whe nbinding to the Web Service
from within the VB6 IDE?

Thanks for your advice!

- Joe Geretz -

[Joseph Geretz]

Hi Claus,

Thanks for the link. I reviewd the conversation, but I'm not sure if this is
what I'm already doing.

ActiveX -Interop -.NET Class (Proxy) -Web Service

Or are you saying that it's possible to set it up as:

ActiveX -Proxy -Web Service?

If so, where can I find out more about how to construct this proxy between
an ActiveX client and a Web Service?

Thanks!

- Joe Geretz -

"Claus Konrad [MCSD]" <Cl*************@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in
message news:9E**********************************@microsof t.com...

Have a look at this post:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups...bf4&sloc=en-us

--
rgds.
/Claus Konrad
MCSD.NET (C#)
"Joseph Geretz" wrote:

>Is anyone here accessing Web Services from ActiveX (e.g. VB6) client? How
do
you set this up?

Thanks for your advice.

- Joe Geretz -

"Joseph Geretz" <jg*****@nospam.comwrote in message
news:el**************@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

Our application is primarily VB6, however we are migrating toward .NET
and
a newer architecture. For the time being though, we're stuck with a
hybrid
approach with our ActiveX client application accessing .NET Web
Services
provided by the new server-side application.

We like the benefits of Intellisense in the IDE. Visual Studio .NET
will
provide Intellisense for a .NET client which references and accesses a
Web
Service. Unfortunately though, the VB6 IDE doesn't recognize Web
Services
natively. In order to address this we've developed the following
paradigm
for any VB6 client which accesses a .NET Web Service:

ActiveX Client -Interop -.NET Broker Class -.NET Web Service

By interposing a .NET broker class between the ActiveX client and the
Web
Service, we achieve Intellisense at all application layers. However,
the
overhead of the additional broker classes plus the need to deploy these
for Interop is starting to add up. Is there a better way of engineering

Active X Client -.NET Web Service

in such a way that we'll see Intellisense whe nbinding to the Web
Service
from within the VB6 IDE?

Thanks for your advice!

- Joe Geretz -