Name
WebMethodAttribute
Synopsis
Use the WebMethodAttribute
to
mark all the methods that should be made available to web service
clients. All methods marked with this attribute will be accessible automatically and will be included in the WSDL document (and the proxy class) that .NET generates. Methods that are
not marked with this attribute will not visible or usable, even if they
are public.
You can set various properties when you use this attribute. For
example, the Description
property contains a string of information about a web method and is
used for automatically generated description documents and the Internet
Explorer test page. CacheDuration
specifies (in seconds) how long a response will be cached and reused for web method
requests with identical parameter values. EnableSession
allows you to configure whether session support is enabled for your web
method. By default, a web service method will not be cached at all, and
session support will not be enabled. The BufferResponse
property is rarely used, as it only applies to HTTP requests. By
default, BufferResponse
is True
, all as responses are serialized to memory
and transferred only when complete.
The MessageName
property is used to add an alias to a method. This property is most commonly used with polymorphic (overloaded) methods, which must be given unique names, or “disambiguated” before you can use them as web methods. When adding overloaded methods, the original method should retain its name for compatibility with ...
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