Application State Management in Web Service

Introduction:

Application state management is server side state management. It is stored on the memory of server.

Here we will create a web service using Application state management. This service will return the number that how many times the service has accessed. Let's create web service. Follow the given steps.

• Go to Visual Studeo 2010 and take a New Project.
• Take a ASP.NET Web Service Application.
• Click ok button.
• Replace the code with the following code.

public class Service1 : System.Web.Services.WebService
{
[WebMethod]
public int data()
{
if (Application["appli"] == null)
{
Application["appli"] = 1;
}
else
{
int i = (int)Application["appli"];
i++;
Application["appli"] = i;
}
return (int)Application["appli"];
}
}
}