Part 4: Visual Studio .NET sample C# Web Service

Visual Studio .NET comes with a number of good samples which we will utilize in several lessons. Our first project will be to create our first web service using Visual Studio .NET and C#.

Launch Visual Studio .NET and select the “Microsoft Visual C# .NET” icon on the splash screen. On the “Start Page” select “New Project” in the left pane select the “Visual C# Projects” folder in the right single click “ASP.NET Web Service.” In the dialog box you can leave the default name of “WebService1” so the location reads “http://localhost/WebService1” and click “OK.”

When VS is done creating the project, look in the upper right part of the screen at the box labeled “The Solution Explorer”. This gives a hierarchical view of the files in a project. Your screen should look like this.