Better Visual Studio Version for XML Web Services

I am trying to create an application will consume XML web service from one of our vendors. The application has to import data by XML web service from their server. This is my first XML Web service project, so I want to use best tool that I can use. I can simply assume latest Visual Studio 2010 is the best one to use, but I just don't want to assume it because I have never tried with any versions of visual studio for a XML Web service. This is what I want to do. If VS2010 and VS2008 provide same functionality for XML Web services, then I'd like to use VS2008. What do you t开发者_运维百科hink? Please, advise me. Always thanks for any answers.

Use Visual Studio 2010. Use "Add Service Reference" to add a reference to a web service into your project.

Check out:

A Developer's Introduction to Windows Communication Foundation 4

and see all the improvement that have been made to WCF (which is the default standard for web services since .NET 3)...

WCF supports both using SOAP, as well as REST, which is (vastly simplified) XML-over-HTTP / XML Web Services.