instantiating an object from a web service vs instantiating an object from a regular class

Question

I have a very basic web service:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Services;

namespace          


        

Answer 1

Services created through the older .asmx technology are not singleton instances. This means that each call you make to the server instantiates a new instance of the service each time. Two real solutions, either use static variables (eugh....), or switch to using WCF.