title: Adding a Single Web Service to an Existing ASP.NET Application
body: <p>I've written an ASP.NET website along with a companion WinForms desktop application, which is used to maintain the site.</p>
  
  <p>The desktop application needs to create a user. However, this is awkward because I would need to ensure all the membership settings are exactly the same as they are in my website's web.config file.</p>
  
  <p>It would be easier if my desktop application could "call into" the website somehow and tell it to create a user. It seems like a web service would be a good option for this. However, Visual Studio doesn't have an option to add an ASMX file. And if I create a separate, web service application, then that application would have the same problem my desktop application has.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to add a single web service to an existing ASP.NET application? Any links? Thanks.</p>