Publically available Web Services from Microsoft. When I joined the developer team in 2001, I was charted with evangelising XML Web Services , and specifically helping create publically available Web Services . This was during the excitement of hailstorm . At the time, the only services we had available were passport and alerts , and ironically we didn’t implement any of the protocols (such as SOAP or WSDL ) that we were evangelising! Talk about pushing stuff up hill . If we talk the talk, we gotta walk the walk. Slowly the story is getting little bit better, with more services being developed. Aaron Skonnard , in MSDN magazine this month, has a list of publicly-available Web services at Microsoft . And they implement the protocols that matter, as well as support the .net framework. Well about time!!! Comments Anonymous December 17, 2003 I tried to get an MapPoint evaluation account for doing demos in some of my VB.NET and C# classes and it was like pulling teeth to get it. And once I had some good demos running, my account expired. I had a pretty cool pizza order entry system going too. Additional resources Last updated on 2003-12-18