Installing the Web Services Enhancements
The setup program for WSE installs the following items on a computer:
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The Microsoft.Web.Services2 assembly (Microsoft.Web.Services2.dll) into the application folder.
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[Optionally] WSE Tools.
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[Optionally] WSE QuickStart sample programs.
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[Optionally] WSE documentation.
Support
The Web Services Enhancements for Microsoft .NET builds on the Microsoft .NET Web services foundation, and will evolve to keep pace with the latest advancements in the Web services industry. As these advancements gain broad adoption and mature, they will be absorbed into the .NET Framework and Visual Studio, while future releases of the Web Services Enhancements will continue to target the latest advances.
This software is intended not only to allow developers to learn and experiment with the latest Web services capabilities, but it also provides a supported and deployable software foundation for development projects that take advantage of the latest capabilities. This version of the Web Services Enhancements will offer standard support for two years from the start of general availability. Extended support will be available for one additional year. Standard support includes many of the support options and programs that customers receive today, such as paid incident support, support charged on an hourly basis, support for warranty claims, and hotfix support.
As specifications evolve through the standards process, the Web Services Enhancements will track and implement the latest specifications. Because of this, code written for this version of the Web Services Enhancements is not guaranteed to be compatible with the future versions of the product. In other words, backward compatibility cannot be assured from version to version.
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| WSE is not supported if installed on a computer with a version of the .NET Framework later than 1.1 (or a version of Visual Studio later than Visual Studio .NET 2003). |
Additional Configuration
Depending on the feature of WSE you want to use, your computer may need further configuration. The following table summarizes the features of WSE; if additional configuration is necessary, a link to the topic detailing those configuration steps appears.
| Feature | Additional configuration needed? | Topic(s) with configuration details |
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| Yes | QuickStart Samples readme file. | |
| Signing a SOAP Message Using an X509 Certificate | Yes | |
| Processing SOAP Messages Signed with an X509 Certificate | Yes | How to: Verify Digital Signatures of SOAP Messages Signed by an X.509 Certificate-and- |
| Signing a SOAP Message Using a User Name and Password | No | N/A |
| Processing SOAP Messages Signed Using a User Name and Password | Yes | How to: Verify Digital Signatures of SOAP Messages Signed Using a User Name and Password |
| Encrypting a SOAP Message Using an X509 Certificate | Yes | How to: Encrypt a SOAP Message Using an X.509 Certificate -and- |
| Decrypting a SOAP Message Encrypted with an X509 Certificate | Yes | How to: Decrypt a SOAP Message Encrypted with an X.509 Certificate -and- |
| Adding Security Credentials to a SOAP Message | Sometimes | |
| Routing SOAP Messages with the Web Services Enhancements | Yes |