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Asked: 2026-05-16T03:15:31+00:00

The old ASP.NET ASMX Web services used to produce a Web page that allowed

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The old ASP.NET ASMX Web services used to produce a Web page that allowed a user to navigate to the various methods and invoke them (as long as the parameters were all simple types).

WCF web services produce a much less useful page (You have created a service… blah, blah, blah…). My question is two part…

Can I get WCF to produce results like ASMX did?

OR

Can I produce custom HTML that documents my service? If so, How?

This service is a nice example of the kind of thing I’d like to do… http://footballpool.dataaccess.eu/data/info.wso

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  1. Editorial Team

    No, and no.

    The service page that WCF produces is hard-wired, and I haven’t ever heard of any trick or technique to change it. And no, you cannot get back the old ASMX service page, either.

    There’s a couple of things you can do:

    • based on your WSDL that completely describes your service, you could create an HTML help or man page (or pages) and have those displayed under a static URL (e.g. http://myserver/myservice/helppage.html)

    • you could create a totally separate page to describe your service, like the one you linked to, and make that available

    Mind you: WCF services are by default SOAP based service calls – you cannot just call those from a web browser.

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