atlsoap.h deprecated?

Question

Says it all really, some of our code references atlmfc\include\atlsoap.h and it doesn't appear to be installed (there is a version under ce\atlmfc\include)

 

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dan

Answer 1

Hi,

 

The AtlServer library is no longer shipped with Visual Studio; instead, it is available through a shared source project starting in 2007, at this location: http://www.codeplex.com/AtlServer (downloadable as a .zip file).  Please visit the project site for more information.

 

Thanks,

Marina Polishchuk

MSFT -- Visual C++

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Answer 2

What if the new license is not acceptable to us, I'm having our legal check it over.

 

Was any notice of this change given ?

 

Thanks

 

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Dan

Answer 3

Hi Dan,
 
The change was brought up at several conferences (MVP summit, ISV summit, TechEd and SDWest 2007), as well as announced on the VCBlog (http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2007/03/02/atl-server-shared-source-release-now-available.aspx). 

Thanks,

 

Marina Polishchuk

MSFT -- Visual C++

Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights

Answer 4

Hi Dan,
 
The change was brought up at several conferences (MVP summit, ISV summit, TechEd and SDWest 2007), as well as announced on the VCBlog (http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2007/03/02/atl-server-shared-source-release-now-available.aspx). 

Thanks,

 

Marina Polishchuk

MSFT -- Visual C++

Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights

Answer 5

I'm sure I'm missing something, but those blog references just say that the source is being opened up, they don't say it's being removed from Visual Studio ?

 

Our legal have concerns over using source that is contributed to in a public way, there is no way for us to guaranteee that the contributions don't infringe patents/copyright.

 

You could still supply the existing ATL under you existing license and we could happily use it in our code?

 

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Dan

Answer 6

Hi Dan,

 

I am sorry about this change coming to you as a surprise. We did try to announce the change as wide as possible and we have used blogs, several conferences and meetings with our MVPs and in several customer visits. Once source code is released as shared source project, VC++ cannot ship it in the box. Orcas March CTP was the first release without ATL Server headers and same time the shared source project has been populated. If you legal thinks that the license for shared source of ATL Server is not acceptable for your company, you may need to switch to other alternative libraries and/or framewors for building Web Service clients or keep using VS2005 SP1 for that module of your application. VC++ releases going forward are not going to ship ATL Server and any future development in the library will only be done through shared source project. ATL will be shipped in VC++ only going forward and we have no plans as of today to change its shipping vehicle to a shared source project.

 

Thanks,

Nikola