Question

I have 2 question related to the web services.

1. How we achieve the method overloading in web services.
2. How to implement security(authentication) in web services.

Answer 1

Okay for overloading:

[WebMethod(MessageName = "MaxInt", Description = "Compare two int values 
and return the max value", EnableSession = true)]
public int MaxValue(int a, int b)
{
   return (a > b ? a : b);
}
[WebMethod(MessageName = "MaxFloat", Description = "Compare two float values 
and return the max value", EnableSession = true)]
public float MaxValue(float a, float b)
{
   return (a > b ? a : b);
}

What do you mean precisely by authentication? You can obviously use a validation key to access webservice. The question is confusing. Elaborate please.