The Document Workspace Web service is used by 2007 Microsoft Office system applications that support the Document Management pane.

The methods exposed by this Web service provide functionality in the following categories:

• Managing Document Workspace sites

  • CanCreateDwsUrl

  • CreateDws

  • RenameDws

  • DeleteDws

• Managing data for the Document Workspace site

  • GetDwsData

  • GetDwsMetaData

  • UpdateDwsData

• Managing folders in the Document Workspace site

  • CreateFolder

  • DeleteFolder

• Managing documents in the Document Workspace site

  • FindDwsDoc

• Managing site users for the Document Workspace site

  • RemoveDwsUser

You must authenticate the user to the server (see Example), before calling the methods of the Document Workspace Web service.

The methods of the Document Workspace Web service operate on any type of SharePoint site, including sites that are not configured as Document Workspace sites. For example, you can use the GetDwsMetaData method to return information about any SharePoint site.

The following code example shows how to initialize a new instance of the Document Workspace Web service and authenticate the user to the server by using the credentials of the current user.

Dim dwsWebService As server.Dws = New server.Dws()
dwsWebService.Credentials = 
    System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials

name.Dws dwsWebService = new name.Dws();
dwsWebService.Credentials = 
    System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;