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I'm back to doing some BDC work and now remember how much I disliked it. I'm using hte BDC Application Definition Designer that comes with the SDK but it's always helpful to have a little refresher course on what everything does. Randy Williams wrote and 8 part series over at SharePointMagazine.com that you should check out. Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , Part 5 , Part 6 , Part 7 , Part 8

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/Developer-Video.aspx Check them out.

I found there are a lot of instructions on how to create web services but not many that give a best practices approach to doing this inside your solution in a way that is easy to repeat (like when you create new web methods in your custom web service and you don't want to manually re-edit all the wsdl and disco junk). First, you need to download two things to follow along: STSDEV WSS Web Service Helper Next, follow these steps: Create a new project in STSDEV, use the empty project C# assembly Add a new Web Service Application Project to your solution Add your web method to your web service. (If you just want to test this out, the default HelloWorld will work) Run the WSS Web Service Helper against your .asmx file (in your web service project). This will autogenerate your wsdl and disco .aspx files. Copy the .asmx file and the .cs codebehind (your webservice) and the two .aspx files generated by the WSS Web Service Helper and place them into your Rootfiles/ISAPI folder in your STSDe...