Example Webservice Call using Visual Basic:

This example requires MS SOAP Toolkit 3.0
You can download it from here.

        ' creating th soap client object
        Dim SoapClient = CreateObject("MSSOAP.SoapClient30")
        SoapClient.ClientProperty("ServerHTTPRequest") = True

        On Error Resume Next

        ' Initialize the client:
        '
        ' Param1: URL to the wsdl of the soap service
        ' Param2: ServiceName
        ' Param3: Portname
        Call SoapClient.mssoapinit("http://localhost:8090/test", "SoapServiceService", "test")

        ' Any errors so far?
        If Err.Number <> 0 Then
            MsgBox(Err.Description, MsgBoxStyle.Critical)
        End If

        ' Executing the webservice method testDate
        Dim result = SoapClient.testDate()