Creating Web Services and Web Methods

When you publish schemas as a Web service, you control the creation of Web services and Web methods in the BizTalk Web Services Publishing Wizard. You can rename the Web service description, Web service and Web method inside the tree available on the Web Services page. You can add and remove Web services and Web methods. The wizard uses the root element names of the selected request schemas as the input parameter name. The Web method return value returns the response schema.

Note

ASP.NET Web clients may change the Web method signature by combining the in and out parameters of the same type. For example, an ASP.NET Web client may change a BizTalk Web method from string myService(string part) to void myService(ref string part).

Note

If your receive port is defined as one-way, the Web method response type is void and no information is returned to the Web client. The SOAP adapter and orchestration do not return thrown exceptions to the Web client.

Web services naming conventions for published orchestrations

The BizTalk Web Services Publishing Wizard generates Web service (.asmx) file names based on the Web services description that you define in the Web Service page. The following table shows the default values for the Web service file names.

Generated Web service	File name
BizTalkWebService	Visual Studio Web Service project name
WebService1	Web service (.asmx) file name
WebMethod1	Web method name

The generated Web service does not reflect the names of the remaining nodes.

See Also

Publishing Schemas as a Web Service
How to Use the BizTalk Web Services Publishing Wizard to Publish Schemas as a Web Service