ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Calling a Static Page Method

If you do not plan to call a web method from multiple pages, don’t perform all the work of creating a separate web service. Instead, you can expose a static method from the same AJAX page calling the web method.

For example, the page in Listing 40.7 includes a server method named GetQuote().

Listing 40.7. ShowPageMethod.aspx

Just like in the previous section, you can call a page method in the exact same manner as a web service. We pass in the URL and method name of our GetQuote() method to the $.ajax call, and our ...