Date: Dec. 9, 2001
Link: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2001/12/03/myservices.html
Source Author or Organization: Christopher A. Jones, .NET Dev Center

Microsoft's .NET My Services is a new incarnation of HailStorm, aimed at enabling users to take advantage of XML-based Web services, including a HailStorm-like ability to let data follow the user around across platforms and allow invited others to update designated parts of the user's data, while trying to address misgivings users may have over entrusting security of personal data to a central Microsoft repository.

This tutorial by Christopher A. Jones, coauthor of the book Python & XML from O'Reilly & Associates, introduces .NET My Services and focuses on programming services with Python and XML. Illustrating with code listings, Jones shows how to create a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) packet in Python that will query a .NET Contacts service, send the packet to .NET My Services, and retrieve the returned packet.

Working through the tutorial requires Python 2.1 and the PyXML package.