Queries the database, returning a business matching the Id.

• You will be charged 3 business credits for each record returned.
• Not all the fields are populated for all records.
• The following records are free for test purposes:
• GBR: Microsoft Ltd. Microsoft Campus Thames Valley Reading, RG6 1WG
• FRA: MICROSOFT FRANCE 148 RUE DE L UNIVERSITE Paris, 92200
• USA: Microsoft Corporation 4200 150th Ave Ne Redmond, 98052-5302
• DEU: Microsoft Deutschland GmbH Katharina-Heinroth-Ufer 1 Berlin, 10787
• AUS: MICROSOFT PTY LTD LEVEL 7 1 EAGLE ST Brisbane, 4000
• SGP: MICROSOFT SINGAPORE PTE LTD 1 Marina Boulevard Singapore, 018989
• JPN: MICROSOFT CO.,LTD. ODAKYU SOUTHERN TOWER Shibuya-Ku, 151-0053

Postcode Anywhere SOAP services are based on the .NET framework and offer the easiest route for .NET and other SOAP developers to consume the service. The service is available across HTTP and HTTPS protocols although we only recommend HTTPS in exceptional circumstances due to the significant performance overhead this involves.

http://services.postcodeanywhere.co.uk/international/business.asmx?wsdl

Postcode Anywhere XML services offer a simple and flexible way to interact with service. The service is available across HTTP and HTTPS protocols although we only recommend HTTPS in exceptional circumstances due to the significant performance overhead this involves. They offer 6 response formats which generalise to a tabular structure, and in each case the request structure is exactly the same. Each request is a standard HTTP GET request with the querystring forming the request parameters. The different response formats are:

• XML is an attribute oriented XML response which is compact and quick to work with. The document contains a schema element which describes the fields present and data elements with the individual fields present as attributes. Where a field is blank in the response, the attribute is omitted.
• Recordset is similar to the regular XML response but contains additional attributes and tags to make it parsable from the Microsoft OLEDB persistence provider. This is ideal for VB and ASP developers without XML skills as the response can be directly loaded into an ADO recordset.
• Dataset follows the Microsoft ADO.NET dataset persistence format and can be easily loaded into a .NET dataset for manipulation. The element oriented format is considerably cleaner than the recordset equivalent and may be of use to regular XML users.
• CSV returns a CSV formatted document with one record per line, the first line containing the field headings. This format is useful in legacy systems and those without XML parsers.
• TSV returns a TSV formatted document with one record per line, the first line containing the field headings. This format is useful in legacy systems and those without XML parsers.
• Inline returns Javascript to be executed by a browser. This format is useful for client side development in web applications.
• JSON returns a JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoded response. Use the callback parameter to set the function that is invoked when the data is returned to the browser.

These automatically generated code samples are great for Java, Javascript, ASP, PHP and SQL developers. They provide a simple framework for integrating into your applications.