--- title: "[How Do I:] ASP.NET AJAX Enable an Existing Web Service? | Microsoft Docs" author: JoeStagner description: "This video demonstrates how simple it is to add Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX functionality to an existing ASP.NET web service. This enables the web service to gene..." ms.author: aspnetcontent manager: wpickett ms.date: 01/26/2007 ms.topic: article ms.assetid: 15a8d767-a99e-4459-8466-7746b5f29362 ms.technology: dotnet-webforms ms.prod: .net-framework msc.legacyurl: /web-forms/videos/aspnet-ajax/how-do-i-aspnet-ajax-enable-an-existing-web-service msc.type: video --- [How Do I:] ASP.NET AJAX Enable an Existing Web Service? ==================== by [Joe Stagner](https://github.com/JoeStagner) This video demonstrates how simple it is to add Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX functionality to an existing ASP.NET web service. This enables the web service to generate a JavaScript proxy that the client browser can use to call the web service. [▶ Watch video (23 minutes)](https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/ASP-NET-Site-Videos/how-do-i-aspnet-ajax-enable-an-existing-web-service) >[!div class="step-by-step"] [Previous](how-do-i-add-aspnet-ajax-features-to-an-existing-web-application.md) [Next](how-do-i-use-the-aspnet-ajax-client-library-controls.md)