SharePoint Web Services: Example 1

Presto version 2.6.1 or later is capable of consuming SharePoint Web Services, earlier versions of Presto did not support the NTLM Authentication.

SharePoint Web Service Endpoints have the general form:

http://site address/_vti_bin/service name.asmx

The following SharePoint Web Services are considered to be of particular interest as Presto Published Services:

Sites
/_vti_bin/sites.asmx
Provides methods for returning information about the site templates for a site collection.

Lists
/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx
Provides methods for working with lists and list data.

Views
/_vti_bin/Views.asmx
Provides methods for working with views of lists.

Search
/_vti_bin/search.asmx
Allows access to Enterprise Search results from client applications and Web applications outside of the context of a SharePoint site.

The following link provides a summary of all the Web Services available in SharePoint MOSS 2007 SharePoint Web Services.

Microsoft does not recommend heavy use of SharePoint Web Services for updating SharePoint data, however, passive use of SharePoint Web Services to read service data is considered acceptable.