Hi Howard,

From your description, you're planning to move your existing VS 2005/WSE
3.0 based webservice project to VS 2008.

For the upgrade plan, here are some of my understanding and suggestion:

Though VS 2008/.NET 3.5(also 3.0) provide new libraries and components,
however, they're not quite aim at WSE or webservice. For WSE, the 3.0 one
with .net framework 2.0 is the current latest version and if your
application want to continue be a webservice that secured through WSE 3.0,
I think you should keep it with .net framework/WSE 3.0, there hasn't any
particular benefit to upgrade it. And WSE 3.0 still haven't notes about the
compatibility with .NET 3.5 framework.

Also, you mentioned WCF, yes, it's one of the added components in .NEt 3.0.
And as a unified communication framework on windows, it provide a unified
and compatible programming model for developing distributed service. And if
you do want to update your webservice application to WCF application, then
it would be a good reason to use VS 2008.  

So would you let me know what your actual plan is here?

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead



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From: "Howard Hoffman" <Howard.Hoffman@community.nospam>
Subject: VS2008 and WSE3
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:18:35 -0500

We've a .set of NET2 / ASP.NET2 / WSE3 based products, and we're beginning
to contemplate moving to .NET 3.5 now that VS 2008 is RTM.

Will a .NET2 / ASP.NET2 / WSE3 application build within VS2008?  I'm
imagining there are bug fixes in the .NET core classes in .NET 3.5; in
addition to some new features that might be useful to us.

We've some custom WSE3 PolicyAssertions that I imagine will need to be
restructured into the WCF equivalent.  Before we start restructuring our
WSE3 Policy Assertions, our question is whether the app will build / run at
all from VS2008.

Thanks in advance,

Howard Hoffman

hi Howard,
i have a winforms client (.net 2) connecting to a WSE 3 webservice hosted on
asp.net v2, using a CustomUsernameTokenManager.   the project compiled and
ran no problem in VS 2008.  you don't get the WSE menu item in the VS
project context menu for configuring WSE because WSE only seems to look for
VS 2005.
in a very basic sense, WSE is Microsoft.Web.Services3.dll, and it will work
just like any DLL reference.
hope this helps
tim