Is webservice.htc obsolete?

[Rob Kraft]

I started developing a web service following samples that made use of
webservice.htc. I have since found a way to call a web service with
javascript from a web page that is MUCH easier than using webservice.htc. Is
webservice.htc obsolete? Would webservice.htc have any advantage over this
approach?

namespace MyCompany.Services.Control
{
[WebService(Namespace = "http://www.MyCompany.com/Services/Control/")]
[WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)]
[ToolboxItem(false)]
[ScriptService]
public class FrameItemService : System.Web.Services.WebService
{
[WebMethod(EnableSession=true)]
public string HelloWorld()
{
}
}
}

 

[John Saunders]

I started developing a web service following samples that made use of
webservice.htc. I have since found a way to call a web service with
javascript from a web page that is MUCH easier than using webservice.htc.
Is
webservice.htc obsolete? Would webservice.htc have any advantage over
this
approach?

webservice.htc is very old. It's from the days before AJAX. It is as
obsolete as the SOAP Toolkit.