Today I had to create some web forms to submit XML requests to the Army and Air Force Exchange Service web service for authorizing Military Star Card payments. They did not create their web service properly. My web forms had fields for the credit card number, the facility number, the amount, and the authorization code but I had to send all that information as a single string of XML because their web service only expects to receive that.
I wrote my web forms in ASP.NET using Visual Basic. My code had to construct the string of XML. AAFES does not appear to provide any online Star Card processing web applications. They insist you use their unconventional credit card which no shopping cart software is designed to support and then they don’t give you any means of processing those credit cards.
I have developed a few web services myself. It is surprising that this technology is not used more often but I don’t know of any other local developers creating web services for any purpose whatsoever.
One Response to Web Services In VB.NET