January 2002
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
11h 5m
English
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Troubleshooting
Creating a .NET Web Service
I’m having difficulties creating a basic Web service and am not sure where to begin.
If you’re having difficulties creating a basic Web service, keep in mind that you only need to employ two classes:
WebService
WebMethodAttribute
The WebService class is used to simply declare the Web service. It does not give a name to the Web service or tell the world that there is a new Web service. It is only a directive to allow the .NET framework to treat this set of code as a Web service.
The WebMethodAttribute class is used to identify the set of code that is reusable. Any set of code that is reusable must be public and used within an ASP.NET application.
In VB .NET a simple Web service can be created with the ...