Web service in a subfolder of an asp.net web site

Question

I wonder if someone might be able to point me in the right direction.  I have an asp.net website hosted on shared hosting which works just fine.  I have written a web application which contains a web service.  This works fine on my development machine, and works fine if I publish the files to the root of my shared hosting.  However I would like to "install" this web service into the existing website.  To make it easier for updates, I thought that the best way to do this would be to create a subfolder within the web hosting and publish my web service files to it.  Obviously (now) this does not work.  It appears that I can put my asmx file anywhere I like but the compiled files must go into the websites bin folder.  I have read that I can use the following example config to add further references to folder which contain compiled code:-

  <runtime>
    <assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
      <probing privatePath="bin;WebServices/bin;" />
    </assemblyBinding>
  </runtime>

This does not work for me however, giving the following error message when browsing to the asmx file:-

Parser Error Message: Could not create type 'ContentManagementWebServices.Products'.

What am I doing wrong?  Many thanks in advance.

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Alan Moseley

Answer 1

Generally, it's best to create a separate web application. Is that a problem for you?

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John Saunders
WCF is Web Services. They are not two separate things.
Use WCF for All New Web Service Development, instead of legacy ASMX or obsolete WSE
Use File->New Project to create Web Service Projects

Answer 2

It is already a separate web application from a project development perspective, that was my whole point.  If you mean that I need to create a new application folder on IIS then this is a problem as I am not in control of the hosting.

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Alan Moseley

Answer 3

That's the problem. You can only have one application per bin folder.

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John Saunders
WCF is Web Services. They are not two separate things.
Use WCF for All New Web Service Development, instead of legacy ASMX or obsolete WSE
Use File->New Project to create Web Service Projects

Answer 4

Hence my original question, can (and how do) you add an addition bin folder?

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Alan Moseley

Answer 5

Hence my original question, can (and how do) you add an addition bin folder?

You don't.

If your hosting provider permits you access to IIS, then create a new application from a virtual folder under the main application. Otherwise, you're out of luck, and won't be able to use a separate project for the web service.

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John Saunders
WCF is Web Services. They are not two separate things.
Use WCF for All New Web Service Development, instead of legacy ASMX or obsolete WSE
Use File->New Project to create Web Service Projects