[pianoben]

I never gave the Visual Studio WSDL code-generator the respect it deserved at the time. With hindsight, it was amazingly easy to use and generally "just worked".

> (if the API was written properly)

A very important caveat! I remember we hired some consultants from a world-renowned tech company - let's call them Big Red for now - and their big integration deliverable was a SOAP API with... one method. It accepted a string, and returned a string. And what was that one string? ...A SOAP request! The best code-generator in the world wouldn't have helped.

To this day I wonder if we actually ended up paying for that. I sure hope we didn't.