asp.net web services initialization

Question

I have a web service (asmx) to return a list of icons urls as json . Where should I put initialization of the list of all the icons ? I want the list be initialized once.

Answer 1

Have a look at this question: C# How to initialize WebService

Answer 2

You could simply load the list into a static variable in your service class. The static initialization should only happen the first time the class is loaded by IIS.