Accessing subsites' lists via the MOSS 2007 Lists.asmx web service

I spent a little bit of time trying to figure this one out. I'm playing with the exposed web services that MOSS 2007 provides, trying to figure out how to manipulate lists via this API. My web reference is set to http://company.com/Clients/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx, but I am getting the same response as if the web reference were set to the site root (i.e. http://company.com/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx).

Thanks to user in.the.dark on MSDN forums (http://forums.msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/sharepointdevelopment/thread/80be9abc-f9e0-49b6-8ebc-8f90ddbf27a2/), a workaround is to set the URL programmatically, like so:

using (com.company.Lists lists = new com.company.Lists())
{
    lists.Url = "http://company.com/Clients/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx";
    XmlNode listColl = lists.GetListCollection();
}

listColl now contains the subsite's lists, rather than the root site's lists.

How to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools to XP or Vista

Another blog ripoff, this time from Janne Mattila, on how to trick XP or Vista machines into thinking that WSS 3.0 is installed so that you can install WSS 3.0 Tools for Visual Studio 2005:

http://blogs.msdn.com/jannemattila/archive/2007/08/16/how-to-install-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0-tools-to-xp-or-vista.aspx

Details: it's a registry hack...

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0]
"Sharepoint"="Installed"

How to Create a MOSS 2007 VPC Image

Wonderful series of posts by Tony Zink outlining exactly what you need to do to set up Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 on a Virtual PC with a SQL Server 2005 backend and full e-mail capabilities:

http://www.pptspaces.com/sharepointreporterblog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=28