Adding a public property to a web service

[skodeh]

Hello all,<BR><BR>I'm building a web service that will process HTML formatted newsletters for approximately 1500 recipients. I would like to use a couple of properties in this service. I've created a web method and have added a public property to the class. The problem is when I add a web reference to my aspx project, the web methods are exposed, but the public property is not. My code is structured like the following:<BR><BR>Imports System.Web.Services<BR><BR><WebService(Namespace := "http://tempuri.org/")> Public Class Service1<BR> Inherits System.Web.Services.WebService<BR> Public strHelloWorld As String = ""<BR><BR> <WebMethod()> Public Function HelloWorld() As String<BR> HelloWorld = setString<BR> End Function<BR><BR> Public Property setString() As String<BR> Get<BR> If strHelloWorld = "" Then<BR> setString = "Hello World"<BR> Else<BR> setString = strHelloWorld<BR> End If<BR> End Get<BR> Set(ByVal Value As String)<BR> setString = Value<BR> End Set<BR> End Property<BR><BR>End Class<BR><BR>Do I have to expose the property using something like the "<WebMethod()>" tag?<BR><BR>Thanks in advance,<BR><BR>RussGiving an object a property implies that it is stateful - web services are by definition stateless, so the concept of a property is meaningless. You can emulate it by maintaining session state behind the scenes, but its messy.