1. Visual Studio For Web Development
2. Visual Studio Code Simple Web Server Settings
3. Live Server Visual Studio Code
4. Visual Studio Code Web Version

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This article helps you write a web service, called MathService, that exposes methods for adding, subtracting, dividing, and multiplying two numbers.

Visual Studio For Web Development

Original product version: Visual C# .NET
Original KB number: 308359

Requirements

The following list describes the recommended hardware, software, skills and knowledge that you need:

• Microsoft Windows
• Internet Information Server
• Visual Studio .NET

This article assumes that you're familiar with the topic: How to use the Visual Studio .NET integrated development environment.

Write an .asmx web service

1. Open Visual Studio .NET.

2. On the File menu, select New and select Project. Under Project types, select Visual C# Projects. Then select ASP.NET Web Service under Templates. Type MathService in the Location text box to change the default name (WebService1) to MathService.

3. Change the name of the default Web service that is created from Service1.asmx to MathService.asmx.

4. Select Click to switch to code view in the designer environment.

5. Define methods that encapsulate the functionality of your service. Each method that will be exposed from the service must be flagged with a WebMethod attribute in front of it. Without this attribute, the method will not be exposed from the service.

   Note

   Not every method needs to have the WebMethod attribute. It's useful to hide some implementation details called by public web service methods or for the case in which the WebService class is also used in local applications. A local application can use any public class, but only WebMethod methods will be remotely accessible as web services.

   Add the following method to the MathServices class that you created:

6. Select Build on the Build menu to build the web service.

7. Browse to the MathService.asmx Web service page to test the web service. If you set the local computer to host the page, the URL is http://localhost/MathService/MathService.asmx.

The ASP.NET runtime returns a web Service Help Page that describes the Web service. This page also enables you to test different web service methods.

Consume a web service

1. Open Visual Studio .NET.

2. Under Project types, select Visual C# Projects, then select Console Application under Templates.

3. Add a reference for the MathService web service to the new console application.

   This step creates a proxy class on the client computer. After the proxy class exists, you can create objects based on the class. Each method call that is made with the object then goes out to the uniform resource identifier (URI) of the web service (usually as a SOAP request).

   1. On the Project menu, select Add Web Reference.
   2. In the Add Web Reference dialog box, type the URL for the web service in the Address text box and press ENTER. If you set the local computer to host the web service, the URL is http://localhost/MathService/MathService.asmx.
   3. Select Add Reference. Alternatively, you can type the URL to the discovery file (MathService.vsdisco) or select Web References on Local Web Server in the left pane to select the MathService service from the list.
   4. Expand the Web References section of Solution Explorer and note the namespace that was used.

4. Create an instance of the proxy object that was created. Place the following code in the function called Main:

5. Invoke a method on the proxy object that you created in the previous step, as follows:

6. Select Build on the Build menu to build the console application.

7. Select Start on the Debug menu to test the application.

8. Close and save the project.

References

Visual Studio Code Simple Web Server Settings

Live Server Visual Studio Code

For more information, see the Programming the Web with Web Services topic in the Visual Studio .NET Help, or the ASP.NET Web Services and ASP.NET Web Service Clients topic in the .NET Framework Developer's Guide.

Visual Studio Code Web Version

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