Section 9.5. Accessing the Location Service APIs

9.5. Accessing the Location Service APIs

Microsoft Location Server Web Service allows you to develop real-time location-based services, such as finding your exact location or locating your contacts' exact locations. This web service also provides API functionality to manage contacts and privacy settings for any given provisioned user, making programming with Microsoft Location Server Web Service no different from programming with any web service.

Once you have successfully installed Microsoft Location Server, you can access the Location Server Web Service APIs using the following URL:

https://YourFullDomainName/mmlsservice/locationserver.wsdl

The Location Server Web Service is hosted by your enterprise on your full domain name that is only accessible via any valid provisioned enterprise user credentials. To program with this web service, you can either use WSDL.EXE or Visual Studio .NET (2003 or later) to generate .NET proxy classes that can be added as references to your project.

If you are planning to develop applications using mobile devices such as PocketPC or SmartPhone, your client should be able to trust the (SSL) certificate presented by the server hosting the Location Server Web service. Read the following knowledge base article to add a root certificate manually: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322956.