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In .NET, is there a standard way to indicate that a web service method has been
deprecated?
To clarify, by ‘web service method’, I mean a method that has been decorated with the [WebMethod] attribute.
Is standard practice to just use the [Obsolete] attribute to mark it as deprecated, just like any other method?
Yes; standard practice is to use the
[Obsolete]attribute for deprecation within .NET.EDIT:
Keep in mind that this will not formally propagate to the WSDL/service as exposed to the consumer. Since WS’s are a standard across technologies; the protocol has to be honored. With that in mind your goal of propagating change to the consumer will unfortunately be tied to release notes as noted in this question. While not ideal it does provide a vehicle for deprecation.