Microsoft 9GD00001 manual Summary

338Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner’s Guide

a Web application as the Web service client. However, this might not be possible if you are deploying to a hosted server by a third-party Internet service provider where you only have a single Web site. In that case, you have the additional option of adding a Web service directly to an existing Web site.

To see how this works, create a new ASP.NET MVC Web site. Right-click the project, select Add New Item, and create a new WCF Service. What you’ll see is an interface file, IService1.cs; an addressable service file; an implementation class, Service1.svc; and Service1.svc.cs, which you can find under the Service1.svc branch. All of the information you’ve learned previously in this chapter applies to coding a Web service that is part of the Web application. You should know that this is an option if it fits your needs.

Summary

You’ve learned how to build a Web service, how to deploy the Web service, and how to write a client that consumes the Web service. The discussion on creating the Web service showed you how to define the Web service contract with an interface and applicable attributes. You saw how to implement the service also. The deployment discussion explained how to host a Web service with IIS and how to use the VS Publish Wizard for deployment. You also saw how to write a client that creates a reference to a Web service and writes code to communicate with the Web service.