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Not so long ago, I've tried creating a webservice for sharepoint. I followed this tutorial. In this tutorial you can see that you also need to create a wsdl and disco file. I didn't do this, and everything still worked. So my question is: Why would you need that files? (some more infromation or links) Thanks!
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You don't need the .disco file from the tutorial. That is only if you want auto-discovery. You do however need the WSDL file, if you intend to be able to involve the web service reference using a dynamic url address. Unlike most web services that are deployed from a static and well-known endpoint location, SharePoint web services can be invoked from multiple access mappings from multiple virtual paths (/marketing/_vti_bin/search.asmx, /hr/_vti_bin/search.asmx). The custom .WSDL file is meant to provide a dynamic endpoint based on the virtual path you access the web service from. On SharePoint 2010 you can also easily create a SOAP-based WCF service without having to gernate the disco or wsdl files. Here is my blog post on the subject: http://blog.sharepointbits.com/2010/04/custom-wcf-services-in-sharepoint-2010_17.html | |||
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