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Creating Your First .NET Web Service

Listing 9.1 gets you started with your first Web service.

Listing 9.1. Your First .NET Web Service

<%@ WebService Language="C#" Class="hks.HelloService"%> using System; using System.Web; using System.Web.Services; namespace hks { [WebService(Namespace="http://www.hiteshseth.com/webservices")] public class HelloService { [WebMethod(Description="Simple Hello Method")] public string sayHello() { return "Returned from a C# Web Service"; } } }

Apart from the bold text in the preceding code, everything perhaps looks similar to your first C# program, without the Main() method. Creating a .NET Web service is similar to creating an ASP.NET page, which explains the first line; the directive WebService states that ...