Creating a Simple Web Service
Now that you have an understanding of the ASP.NET infrastructure, let's use it to create a simple Web service. Let's start by creating a simple Web service without the help of Visual Studio .NET so that you can understand all the constituent pieces of a Web service. The high-level steps are as follows:
1. | Create an asmx file that contains the source code for the Web service. |
2. | Create an IIS virtual directory. |
3. | Test. |
4. | Create a client. |
Create an asmx File for the Web Service
The following code shows the source for a very simple Web service. Save this code into a file called arithmetic.asmx.
1. <%@ WebService Language="C#" class="Arithmetic" %> 2. using System.Web.Services; 3. class Arithmetic 4. { 5. [WebMethod] ...
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