Summary

In this chapter, you learned steps you should perform before you publish your web service for use by others. To start, in order to improve performance and security, you should disable debugger support within your web service by using Visual Studio .NET to build a release version of your code.

Next, to uniquely identify your web service, you should assign a namespace to the service that contains your domain name (such as www.YourSite.com) followed by the web service name. If you do not have a domain name, you can use your first, middle, and last names followed by the web service name. By default, Visual Studio .NET assigns the namespace http://tempuri.org/ to all web services it creates.

Finally, the chapter looked briefly at the UDDI registry, where you can place an entry about your web service that others can use to locate your service as they search for services that implement specific operations.