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Calling asp.net web services using jquery ajax

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In this video we will discuss how to call asp.net webservice using jQuery AJAX.



We want to retrieve data from the following database table tblEmployee using asp.net web service and jQuery AJAX

Calling asp.net web services using jquery ajax

The retrieved data should be displayed as shown below

jquery ajax call asp.net web service

Step 1 : Create SQL Server table and insert employee data

Create table tblEmployee
(
     Id int primary key identity,
     Name nvarchar(50),
     Gender nvarchar(10),
     Salary int
)
GO

Insert into tblEmployee values ('Mark', 'Male', 50000)
Insert into tblEmployee values ('Sara', 'Female', 60000)
Insert into tblEmployee values ('John', 'Male', 45000)
Insert into tblEmployee values ('Pam', 'Female', 45000)
GO

Step 2 : Create a stored procedure to retrieve employee data by ID

Create procedure spGetEmployeeById
@Id int
as
Begin
     Select ID, Name, Gender, Salary
     from tblEmployee
     where ID = @Id
End

Step 3 : Create new asp.net web application project. Name it Demo. 

Step 4 : Include a connection string in the web.config file to your database.
<add name="DBCS"
      connectionString="server=.;database=SampleDB;integrated security=SSPI" />

Step 5 : Add a class file to the project. Name it Employee.cs. Copy and paste the following code.

namespace Demo
{
    public class Employee
    {
        public int ID { get; set; }
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public string Gender { get; set; }
        public int Salary { get; set; }
    }
}

Step 6 : Add a new WebService (ASMX). Name it EmployeeService.asmx. Copy and paste the following code.

using System;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.Web.Services;

namespace Demo
{
    [WebService(Namespace = "http://tempuri.org/")]
    [WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)]
    [System.ComponentModel.ToolboxItem(false)]
    [System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptService]
    public class EmployeeService : System.Web.Services.WebService
    {
        [WebMethod]
        public Employee GetEmployeeById(int employeeId)
        {
            Employee employee = new Employee();

            string cs = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["DBCS"].ConnectionString;
            using (SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(cs))
            {
                SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("spGetEmployeeById", con);
                cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;

                SqlParameter parameter = new SqlParameter();
                parameter.ParameterName = "@Id";
                parameter.Value = employeeId;

                cmd.Parameters.Add(parameter);
                con.Open();
                SqlDataReader rdr = cmd.ExecuteReader();
                while (rdr.Read())
                {
                    employee.ID = Convert.ToInt32(rdr["Id"]);
                    employee.Name = rdr["Name"].ToString();
                    employee.Gender = rdr["Gender"].ToString();
                    employee.Salary = Convert.ToInt32(rdr["Salary"]);
                }
            }

            return employee;
        }
    }
}

Step 7 : Add an HTML page to the ASP.NET project. Copy and paste the following HTML and jQuery code

<html>
<head>
    <script src="jquery-1.11.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(document).ready(function () {
            $('#btnGetEmployee').click(function () {

                var empId = $('#txtId').val();

                $.ajax({
                    url: 'EmployeeService.asmx/GetEmployeeById',
                    data: { employeeId: empId },
                    method: 'post',
                    dataType: 'xml',
                    success: function (data) {
                        var jQueryXml = $(data);
                        $('#txtName').val(jQueryXml.find('Name').text());
                        $('#txtGender').val(jQueryXml.find('Gender').text());
                        $('#txtSalary').val(jQueryXml.find('Salary').text());
                    },
                    error: function (err) {
                        alert(err);
                    }
                });
            });
        });
    </script>
</head>
<body style="font-family:Arial">
    ID : <input id="txtId" type="text" style="width:100px" />
    <input type="button" id="btnGetEmployee" value="Get Employee" />
    <br /><br />
    <table border="1" style="border-collapse:collapse">
        <tr>
            <td>Name</td>
            <td><input id="txtName" type="text" /></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Gender</td>
            <td><input id="txtGender" type="text" /></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Salary</td>
            <td><input id="txtSalary" type="text" /></td>
        </tr>
    </table>
</body>
</html>

In our next video we will discuss how to call an asp.net web service that returns JSON data using jQuery AJAX.

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8 comments:

  1. hi venkat...i wrote thee same code...its not giving me expected result...is there some other setting too? coz i dont think there is any issue with the code.

    It only shows in alert [object object]

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  2. u r using webpage.
    instated of webpage use html page u will get correct data

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    Replies

    1. $(document).ready(function () {
      $('#btnGetEmployee').click(function () {

      var empId = $('#txtId').val();

      $.ajax({
      url: 'http://localhost:54085/EmployeeService.asmx/GetEmployeeById',
      data: { employeeId: empId },
      dataType: "json",
      method: 'post',
      success: function (data) {
      var obj = $.parseJSON(data);
      for (var i = 0; i < obj.length; i++) {
      alert(obj[i].Name);
      }
      //$('#txtName').val(data.Name);
      //$('#txtGender').val(data.Gender);
      // $('#txtSalary').val(data.Salary);
      },
      error: function (err) {
      alert(err);
      }
      });

      });
      });

      I have tried like this it is not working (in html page ) please help me

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  3. still getting same error [object][object] in alertbox

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  4. asmx works just fine and it brings xml data from the server. but, the html page doesn't fetch any data. Can I get help in the last step? I get no error nor fail when build and run. here is the output
    ========== Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

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  5. Hello sir, thank you for this very clear and easy to follow explanation. I have one question about contentType/dataType parameter of ajax. My intellisense shows me contentType, and when I set it to "xml", app doesn't work, error occurs. But if I put dataType:"xml" then everything work, even intellisense is not offering dataType. Why is this?

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  6. I am UI developer .. Should I have to learn Web Service (ASMX) configuration to post and retrieve the data for database????

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