Changing name of web service class after created

Question

I wrote a quick and dirty web service in VB.NET. And as it always goes, I want to move it to production, but don't want to use the name Service1 for the public class. When I change the name I get an error when trying to reference it. I know there is somewhere else I need to change the class name, something in the code behind but I can't find where it is. Does anyone have any ideas where to find this?

Allen

Answer 1

You can change the name of it, no problem. You just need to update your reference to the service. In my experience, sometimes it takes the IDE a little time to reflect the changes made to a local web service.

Answer 2

Look in the designer file for the service, you may need to change it in there as well.

Answer 3

From your comment, this is the problem (in FormService.asmx):

Class="FormService.Service1"

You need to change Service1 to your new service name.

To explain a bit, the asmx page is making a class reference to your service code, this is how the front end page and the back end code behind are wired together (even though we don't really think in terms of services having "pages") - its the same as for pages and user controls.