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How to do SOAP in VB.NET

Asked by: akohan



Hello group,

I'm trying (new to VB.net) to see how SOAP would work in VB.net, so as I was searching ran into
http://www.phpfever.com/soap-zip-code-web-service.html so I was wondering if I can pass a zip code
and in return get the local time of it.

Is this possible? if not, then how can I do this?

Regards

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2009-08-25 at 10:42:18ID24680715
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vb.net. asp.net

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.net

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soap

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SOAP

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Programming for ASP.NET

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Microsoft Visual C#.Net

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Answers

 

by: abelPosted on 2009-08-25 at 11:01:22ID: 25180330

If you are new to VB.NET I wouldn't dream of doing something so complex as SOAP web services, let alone the web services not originally meant for use with .NET. However, if you want to go down this path, I dug up a few starting points (I hope your knowledge of SOAP is solid, though, it will be of great help):

basic tutorial: http://www.java2s.com/Tutorial/ASP.NET/0180__Development/AWebserviceclassthatutilizesaSOAPheaderVB.htm
soap headers example: http://quickstarts.asp.net/QuickStartv20/webservices/doc/SoapHeaders.aspx
basic overview: http://www.exforsys.com/tutorials/vb.net-2005/web-services-soap-wsdl-disco-and-uddi.html
in depth: http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/101503-1.aspx

-- Abel --

 

by: akohanPosted on 2009-08-25 at 12:06:36ID: 25181040


Hi Abel,

Thank you for the heads up. I thought it would be better to describe what I'm trying to do. YOu might know a better way.

There is a VB.net we application which currently is running and in its database zip code of each client is stored (written by somebody else ) now I'm asked to show local time of each client base on his zip code. since this feature was not defined and designed in the first place so I thought SOAP could be a good approach.

Can you give me some suggestions on this?

Regards,

 

by: abelPosted on 2009-08-25 at 12:12:26ID: 25181115

i wouldn't use SOAP for that. There are only a handful of ZIP codes (99999 max, right?) so using a third party library, table that contains that info, install that locally, would be a much easier approach. This doesn't need to be expensive. Here's one I found: http://www.zipinfo.com/products/products.htm

Here are some tips on how you can resolve the zip code to a state. Each state is in a particular timezone, so if you want to spend some time writing an algorithm, you can do so with following these hints: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/707918.html

 

by: akohanPosted on 2009-08-25 at 12:40:47ID: 25181413



I had looked at the google answers page yesterday but either it is not clear exactly what I have to do. I understand there are web apps that can show or return time zone as PM or AM and ... but none of them allows you to get the exact local time.

any idea?

Thanks.

 

by: abelPosted on 2009-08-25 at 17:21:16ID: 25183496

The local time can be calculated based on the timezone. That's the easy part. Just add the hours (DateTime.Add), or use the timezone information, create a timezone object and use that for the calculation.

This is not something that you can do overnight, it will take a bit of time to investigate the possible solutions, then you can choose one depending on price and time (you can of course email the vendors) and then it's implementing time.

 

by: akohanPosted on 2009-08-27 at 18:30:51ID: 25204356


Hello Abel,

Sorry to bother but all I want is sending a request to a server (I guess base on what it is claimed it doesn't matter it is written in PHP, ASP/ASP.net right?). There is a web service as:

http://www.earthtools.org/timezone/34.026448/-118.28290

which I need to get an XML in return. I will only pass those two argument only.


I'm not a fan of VB.net just need to run this and get it to work. Any idea how I can get the XML?

Regards,
ak

 

by: akohanPosted on 2009-08-27 at 18:31:42ID: 25204359


can only send a simple http request?

 

by: abelPosted on 2009-08-28 at 01:26:07ID: 25205730

I'd love to have a look, but I'm off for the weekend and will only be back on Monday. If you can't wait so long, you may try request attention.

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