Can you use JIRA's SOAP API in a VB.NET desktop application?

I tried using JIRA's REST API but the function that I needed wasn't there and found it at JIRA's SOAP API. A newbie like me wants to know if you can use JIRA's SOAP API in a VB.NET desktop appl开发者_StackOverflow中文版ication? Thanks!

Absolutely. The point of a SOAP service is to allow access to the data and functionality of application from another application regardless of the language it is written in. All you need is something in your program that understands how to talk to and work with a SOAP service.

I have no doubt that a VB.NET application can talk to a SOAP service without issue, but I am not a .NET programmer so I can not provide any specific guidance on how to do it.

What you will want to search for is "Consuming SOAP services with VB.NET". I did that myself and came up with some god looking tutorials.

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/vb/vbwebservice.aspx http://www.vbdotnetheaven.com/Uploadfile/SrinivasSampath/WebServiceusingSOAPToolkit11242005002126AM/WebServiceusingSOAPToolkit.aspx http://visualbasic.about.com/od/learnvbnet/a/LVBE_L6_3.htm

Like I said, I think everything you need will be built into the .NET framework. I don't think you will need to download anything additional or include extra libraries.