Other Files in the Project

Before we run headlong into the remaining examples, let's take a moment and see what other files got included in the project and where they sit on your hard drive. Looking at the Solution Explorer pane in Figure 1.3, you see the following files in your project:

  • AssemblyInfo.vb Contains version information related to the Visual Basic project.

  • [Project Name].vsdisco Contains the dynamic discovery information for this Web Service. The ASP.NET runtime uses this to discover and list all the Web Services hosted on a particular machine.

  • Global.asax Use this class to add handlers called by the ASP Application and Session objects. Web Services must derive from System.Web.Services.WebService to get access to these objects.

  • Web.config ...

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