title: Excel 2007 - talking to a web service
body: <p>I've been using Excel 2003's 'Web Services Toolkit' for some time to write spreadsheets that connect to external web services via VBA.</p>
  
  <p>(ie you install the Web Services Toolkit which adds a 'Web Service References...' item to the 'Tools' menu.  You then set up a reference to an Web Service URL and the Toolkit writes the necessary proxy classes in VBA to do the connecting for you.  The web service methods then appear in VBA.)</p>
  
  <p>Excel 2007 doesn't have this 'Web Services Toolkit' - or at least I can't find anything similar.  I note that my Excel 2003 sheets work fine in 2007 so the necessary hooks are in there somewhere.</p>
  
  <p>Which brings me to my question - what is the approved way of talking to an external web services in Excel 2007?  I can't find anything useful on the web?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks...</p>
  
  <p>SAL</p>