Developer: vSphere Web Services SDK

Hi,

VS2008 supports the .Net framework versions 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5, so you can always use VS2008 in stead of VS2005.

Danny

Unfortunately this isn't the whole story. Since the entire VMWare SDK is predicated on VS 2005 (or VS 2005 Express), you need to alter some of the paths in the genvimstubs.cmd file for it to work properly. It's pretty easy, just substitute the attached updated gcmvimstubs2.cmd file and it will work- assuming you have

1. VC# 2008EE (or VS 2008)

2. .net framework 3.5

3. MS SDK 6.1 (if this didn't come with VS you may need to download the platform sdk from MS: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e6e1c3df-a74f-4207-8586-711ebe331cdc&displaylang=en

All I've done is put in the full paths to some of the exes like csc.exe, wdsl.exe and sg.exe using the correct ones for VS 2008, .net 3.5 and SDK 6.1.

This will properly generate the stubs but you should follow the directions for the other parts like compiling the dlls to a debug .exe (last step in build2005.cmd): "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\VCSExpress.exe" "C:\**VMWareSDKinstallDir*\SDK\samples\DotNet\cs\Samples2005.sln* /rebuild Debug"

Note1: "samples2005.sln" may need to be opened in VC# 2008 GUI and converted to a VC# 2008 sln file before running this!

Note2: the path given above for "VCSExpress.exe" will be different for those using VS 2008 (devenv.exe (whew!)

Stubs are used to consume WebService exposed to mange VI. You can perform various tasks to manage your Virtual Infrastrure which you perform using VI Client programmatically consuming the APIs exposed. VI APIs are the only available Management interface for VI.

I was allways looking for a reason to start learning C#. I installed everything, but why would you change the VSINSTALLDIR?

Thanks in advance.