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Example of invoking a Webservice needed...

I've been tasked with getting real-time info from an external .NET app to display within salesforce.

I'm looking for an example where I can be on a contact record, click a link that will pass data to another system/webservice that returns data. We don't want to pass it in the URL for security reasons.

I was thinking, for testing purposes...of calling a WS from weather.com or something based on the contacts zip and then displaying that in a custom tab. Unfortunately, I'm not having a lot of luck finding examples or how tos...

I'm still trying to figure all this webservice stuff out and figured if I could find an example, and maybe good instructions it would help.

Any help would be appreciated.
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If you are talking about creating a web link and passing parameters to the service (weather.com, google, etc) via the query string, you can see some examples here:

http://blog.crmsuccess.com/crmsuccess/2005/04/add_a_wil_for_a.html

There is also a sample ASP.NET application in the toolkits section that would show how to build a web page for your app that does something similar..