Today I’ve been investigating the Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition.

I have gone over the tutorial and created my first web service with it. It’s a great tool to model your web services first, and then implement them. The possible models are a Service Contract Model, Data Contract Model and Host Model; each with their own purpose.

 

I have created my first real service with it and ran in this (little) problem:

I have given my solution a name (say Service1), and then when I wanted to implement my service I wanted to give the service project the same name. This doesn’t work. Lesson learned: give your solution a generic enough name.

 

More on this later.