Running VFP8 Web Service on Windows 2003 Server

[enews.newsguy.com]

I am having some problems configuring Windows 2003 Server to run a VFP Com+
dll as a web service.

I have added an application in COM+ Applications.

To the application I have added the DLL as a component.

On the Activation Tab of the application properties I have set Activation
Type to be server application. However the SOAP section under this is
disabled (grayed out) and I cannot find out how to make it active. I have
searched MSDN with little success. Has any one ever come across this problem
? I originally tried to get it to work with the Soap toolkit until I found
out it wasn't supported on 2003 server.

TIA

Keir

[Eric den Doop]

Hello, enews.newsguy.com!
You wrote on Wed, 21 Apr 2004 10:37:46 +0100:

enc> come across this problem ? I originally tried to get it to work with
enc> the Soap toolkit until I found out it wasn't supported on 2003 server.

While the SOAP toolkit isn't supported on Windows 2003, you can easily get
it to work by adding an isapi extension for WSDL in IIS6. To do so, add a
new webservice extension in
IIS. In the Extension Name box, enter "SOAP Webservices" (or whatever you
prefer). Add "C:\Program Files\Common Files\MSSoap\Binaries\SOAPIS30.dll" to
the Required Files list. I've been using this setting without any problems
for over 6 months.

[Keir Springthorpe]

Post by Eric den Doop
While the SOAP toolkit isn't supported on Windows 2003, you can easily get
it to work by adding an isapi extension for WSDL in IIS6. To do so, add a
new webservice extension in
IIS. In the Extension Name box, enter "SOAP Webservices" (or whatever you
prefer). Add "C:\Program Files\Common Files\MSSoap\Binaries\SOAPIS30.dll" to
the Required Files list. I've been using this setting without any problems
for over 6 months.
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Eric den Doop
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Thanks Eric that seems to have got SOAP working.

Keir