On this blog we normally talk about building and accessing WCF services, since that is the recommended way to build services for Silverlight. However, we continue to support ASMX services using the familiar “Add Service Reference” feature.
Recently I needed to use a web service in order to get some data for my Silverlight application and I found that using an ASMX web service with Silverlight 2 could be quite easy. Though, for people who have never used such service it could be not that easy. So I decided to make this “step-by-step” tutorial and I hope it could be useful to someone.