The name 'InitializeComponent' does not exist in the class or namespace 'HelloService.HelloService'

Micheal,

Its just that in the example code on that page he's half left out some of the autogenerated code that is created when you create your own web service. The bit that is missing is:
            #region Component Designer generated code
                        
            /// <summary>
            /// Required method for Designer support - do not modify
            /// the contents of this method with the code editor.
            /// </summary>
            private void InitializeComponent()
            {
            }
            
            #endregion

InitializeComponent is used by the IDE to write the code when you use the property pane in the IDE to wire up event handlers and set properties of objects on the designer surface. You could just as easily remove the call to "InitializeComponent();" but it's probably better just to paste the code above back into your file.

Andy

It's still failing on the compile. What did I do wrong?  Here's my code after copying your solution.

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Services;

namespace HelloService
{
      [WebService(
             Namespace="http://abstractvb.com/",
             Name="Hello Web Service in C#",
             Description="My Description")]
      public class HelloService : System.Web.Services.WebService
      {
            public HelloService()
            {
                  #region Component Designer generated code
                   
                  /// <summary>
                  /// Required method for Designer support - do not modify
                  /// the contents of this method with the code editor.
                  /// </summary>
                  private void InitializeComponent(){}
         
                  #endregion
            }

                  [WebMethod]
                  public string SayHello(String strMyName)
            {
                  return "Hello " + strMyName;
            }

                  [WebMethod]
                  public string SayGoodBye()
            {
                  return "Goodby!";
            }
      }      
}

And here are the errors:

c:\inetpub\wwwroot\WebService1\Service1.asmx.cs(18): } expected
c:\inetpub\wwwroot\WebService1\Service1.asmx.cs(18): } expected
c:\inetpub\wwwroot\WebService1\Service1.asmx.cs(31): Expected class, delegate, enum, interface, or struct
c:\inetpub\wwwroot\WebService1\Service1.asmx.cs(37): Expected class, delegate, enum, interface, or struct
c:\inetpub\wwwroot\WebService1\Service1.asmx.cs(42): Type or namespace definition, or end-of-file expected


Thanks for your quick response.
Michael Stelly

I see what I did wrong, now. That whole 'method in a method' thing. Thanks for your help!