Describing ASMX web service WebMethod parameters

Question

This seems like a simple question, but I haven't been able to find the answer online via many Google searches. I have a C# web service and, when I visit its ASMX page in the browser, for a particular method it always has the following:

"The following is a sample SOAP 1.1 request and response. The placeholders shown need to be replaced with actual values."

Likewise for SOAP 1.2 and HTTP POST. What I want to know is how I replace the placeholders shown, which are things like:

<myParameter>string</myParameter>

Where 'string' is the placeholder. And in the response:

<xsd:schema>schema</xsd:schema>xml

Where 'schema' and 'xml' are the placeholders. I've been using another web service that has these placeholders filled out with example values for the parameters and responses, and I would like to define such examples for my own web methods, too. I was able to describe the entire method with the following:

[WebMethod(Description="Does awesome things.")]

But I have not found such a thing for the individual parameters of a web method.

Answer 1

By default DefaultWsdlHelpGenerator.aspx is called to generate the "help" page. You can set another (or modified) template with the wsdlHelpGenerator Element in your web.config file.