Creating and Consuming Web Services in Visual Basic®

Using Visual Studio to Register Your SOAP Endpoint in UDDI

After you have finished writing your Web Service, documented the interfaces, and generally made sure that others should be able to use the code, you then need to make the Web Service itself discoverable. One of the best ways to do this is register the endpoint with a UDDI registry. Visual Studio includes a facility to register a Web Service. In this section, we will walk through the registration of the Web Service created in Chapter 1, “Creating Your First Web Service.” You will see a series of screen shots and simple steps showing you how easy this whole process is. The built-in wizard registers the Web Service with the Microsoft UDDI Web Service. A similar registration may be possible ...