Date: Sep. 18, 2001
Link: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/synd/2001/09/10/asp.html
Source Author or Organization: Hamid Shojaee, O'Reilly .NET DevCenter

This is a tutorial on building a simple Web service using Active Server Page (ASP) .NET.

The article walks the user through the process of creating a project of type Web Service in Visual Studio.NET, using a template to generate the code to create a simple Web service with two methods and using the Build command to do a full compile. It then explains how to start the new Web service from the Debug menu of Visual Studio.NET and how to use the Web service by invoking the methods. Windows 2000, Internet Information Server (IIS) and Visual Studio.NET are required to follow the tutorial examples.