Technical requirements

In addition to PowerShell and PowerShell Core, Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition or later is used to follow the SOAP service example.

SOAP interfaces typically use the New-WebServiceProxy command in Windows PowerShell. This command is not available in PowerShell 7, as the assembly it depends on is not available. The command is unlikely to be available in PowerShell Core unless it is rewritten.

Web requests, such as getting content from a website or downloading files, are a common activity in PowerShell, and this is the first topic we will cover.