Autocompleteextender missing required servicemethod property

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Hi..
I am a beginner to ASP.NET, I am using Visual Studio 2019, (not core, not MVC) and I am coding in VB as I feel comfortable with it. I recently installed AJAX Control Tool Kit v. 19.1. In Webform1.aspx I added a textbox with Autocomplete Extender to get data from a local DB. I also added Scriptmanager ajax tool. But I get this error when running it in web browsers:
AjaxControlToolkit.AutoCompleteExtender missing required ServiceMethod property value for TextBox1_AutoCompleteExtender. Parameter name: ServiceMethod.
I tried many tutorials but they are mostly old and are not supported by VS 2019 anymore.
I would appreciate your help. Below is the ASPX and ASPX.VB codes:

This is Webform1.aspx code
<%@ Page Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeBehind="WebForm1.aspx.vb" Inherits="AutoComplete.WebForm1" %>
<%@ Register assembly="AjaxControlToolkit" namespace="AjaxControlToolkit" tagprefix="ajaxToolkit" %>
ScriptPath="AutoComplete.asmx"
TargetControlID="TextBox1" CompletionInterval="12" ServiceMethod="GetCompletionList"

<title>

<asp:scriptmanager id="ScriptManager1" runat="server">

<asp:textbox id="TextBox1" runat="server" height="18px" width="251px">
<ajaxtoolkit:autocompleteextender id="TextBox1_AutoCompleteExtender" runat="server" behaviorid="TextBox1_AutoCompleteExtender" delimitercharacters="" servicepath="" targetcontrolid="TextBox1">

What I have tried:

This is Webform.aspx.VB
Imports System.Data.SqlClient

Public Class WebForm1
Inherits System.Web.UI.Page

Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load

End Sub

<system.web.services.webmethod()>
<system.web.script.services.scriptmethod()>
Public Shared Function GetUserName(prefixUser As String) As String()
Dim Users As New List(Of String)()
Dim ConStr As String = "Data Source=(LocalDB)\MSSQLLocalDB;AttachDbFilename=C:\Users\Administrator\source\repos\AutoComplete\AutoComplete\App_Data\Database1.mdf;Integrated Security=True"
Using conn As New SqlConnection(ConStr)
Using cmd As New SqlCommand("select UserName from Userdetails where UserName like '%' + @Textbox1")

cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Textbox1", prefixUser)
cmd.Connection = conn
conn.Open()
Using sdr As SqlDataReader = cmd.ExecuteReader()
While sdr.Read()
Users.Add(sdr("UserName").ToString())
End While
End Using

conn.Close()
End Using
End Using

Return Users.ToArray()
End Function
End Class

Posted 5-Sep-19 9:27am

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Updated 19-Jun-20 21:16pm

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Richard Deeming · Answer 1 · 2019-09-06T07:13:00

Solution 1

The error message is perfectly clear: you haven't set the ServiceMethod property on the AutoCompleteExtender.

You need to set it to the name of the service method you want to call - in this case, GetUserName.

Posted 6-Sep-19 7:13am

Richard Deeming

Member 14868328 · Answer 2 · 2020-06-19T21:17:00

Hi,
I'm using this code for autocomplete
here it is not firing the service method

Admin/PatientAuto1.aspx
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="PatientAuto1.aspx.cs" Inherits="Admin_PatientAuto1" %>

<%@ Register Assembly="AjaxControlToolkit" Namespace="AjaxControlToolkit" TagPrefix="asp"%>

<!DOCTYPE html>

<title>

<asp:scriptmanager id="ScriptManager1" runat="server" enablepagemethods="true">

<asp:autocompleteextender enabled="true" servicemethod="GetSearch" minimumprefixlength="4" completioninterval="10"
="" enablecaching="true" completionsetcount="10" targetcontrolid="TextBox1" id="AutoCompleteExtender1" runat="server" firstrowselected="false">
<asp:label id="Label1" runat="server" text="Search Name">
<asp:textbox id="TextBox1" runat="server">

Admin/PatientAuto1.aspx.cs
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Web.Services;

public partial class Admin_PatientAuto1 : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}
[WebMethod]
public static List<string> GetSearch(string term)
{
List<string> listPatientNames = new List<string>();

string cs = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["CredenceDBConn"].ConnectionString;
using (SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(cs))
{
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("[dbo].[spGetPatientNames_Vamsi]", con);
cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
cmd.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter()
{
ParameterName = "@term",
Value = term
});
con.Open();
SqlDataReader rdr = cmd.ExecuteReader();
while (rdr.Read())
{
listPatientNames.Add(rdr["PatientName"].ToString());
}
}

return listPatientNames;
}
}