Installation Option for ASP .NET Web Service Application

Question

I am trying to create a ASP .NET Web Service Application using Visual Studio 2005(Version 8.0.50727.42). Unfortunately, I do not get any options for creating such a project. I am guessing it has to do with visual studio installation options.

I am only enabling the components, Visual C#, Visual Web Developer and SQL server 2005. I am hoping this would be enough. Is this ok, or should I go for default installation options.

Is this even a setup issue, or the problem lies elsewhere?

Thanks in Advance.

Answer 1

A web service application is just a web application with .asmx "services" instead of .aspx "pages".

Once you've got a web application the option to add a service should exist in about the same place as to add a "form" or a page.

Methods need to be annotated appropriately but there's not a lot more to it than that.

Of course... ideally you'd want to be creating WCF services rather than web services but equally in an ideal world you'd be using at least VS2008 and .NET 3.5SP1.

Answer 2

I had to install Visual Studio Service Pack 1. This did the job for me.