Any way to programatically wrap a .NET WebService with a SoapExtension?

Question

Basically, I'm trying to tap into the Soap pipeline in .NET 2.0 - I want to do what a SoapExtension can do if you provide a custom SoapExtensionAttribute... but to do it for every SOAP call without having to add the extension attribute to dozens of WebMethods.

What I'm looking for is any extension point that lets me hook in as:

void ProcessMessage(SoapMessage message)

without needing to individually decorate each WebMethod. It's even fine if I have to only annotate the WebServices - I only have a few of those.

Any ideas? Thanks much! Steve

Answer 1

There is a configuration property, soapExtensionTypes that does this, but affects all web services covered by the .config (all of them in the same directory or a sub-directory as the .config)