Message Sets: Message categories

A message category provides another way of grouping your messages, perhaps for documentation or convenience purposes. A message category can also be used for assisting in the generation of Web Services Description Language (WSDL) files, but this use is deprecated. For more information, see Generate WSDL.

A message set category file is created by using the New Message Category File wizard.

When you have created your message category file, you must specify one key property.

Message Category Kind

The Message Category Kind indicates whether the message category is to participate in the generation of WSDL files.

You can then add messages to the message category file. If the message category is to participate in WSDL generation, assign appropriate values to the Role Name and Role Type properties of each member message.