VB.NET and Call Manager Management

[msmalley]

I will start by saying I am a novice programmer so I am looking for some samples or detailed documentation that could help me write a simple application. The simple app will authenticate to Call Manager and perform a simple method of the web reference I have added to my VB.NET project. It would be most helpful to look at some sample code that someone has done in the past. One example of a simple application would to list all calling search spaces in Call Manager

The problem I am having is that I do not know how to authenticate to the CCM AXL service then once I am authenticated how in the world do I make the web service request?

Do I need the SOAP toolkit installed? etc.

Any help is appreciated.

[standist]

I think maybe you can get this from sql by a sample sql command.

[stephan.steiner]

Sure you can extract it from the SQL database, but that wasn't the goal.

I presume that you have yet to write an application consuming a webservice. Hence, starting with Call Manager (which offers many complex method calls) might not be the best idea. But you can easily teach yourself how to work with webservices if you look for a webservice tutorial on the web (that's how I did it), and then try to adapt that to callmanager.

If you know Java or C++, you could have a look at the sample in the AXL developer documentation.. it outlines the authentication and query process.

And you can download a couple XML message samples here: http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/dev_support/access_level/product_support

I'm afraid I have no ready-made VB.NET samples for you but I hope that the above will get you in the right direction.