Use the SoapDocumentMethod Attribute to Speed Up Web Services

I've done a lot of web services during the last couple of years and I simply love Service Oriented Architecture using SOAP. The power of using services as a means to create large connected systems are enormous but sometimes it can be a performance bottleneck. The SOAP protocol in ASP.NET is defined as a response/request operation even if the method returns a void type. That means that the requesting client waits until it gets a response from the web service and that can take a relative long time. For simple logging applications or other simple SOAP calls where you aren't interested in waiting for the response, you can achieve performance gains by using the