If you're seeing "PageMethods is not defined"...

You may be missing EnablePageMethods="true" on your ScriptManager. Thanks to Joe Stagner for that tip. This has come up a number of times on the forums. It's a change between the RC and 1.0, and though it's in the web service documentation, it's strangely absent from the "differences" doc.

Speaking of the documentation, it's now available as a download. (This has been frequently requested.)

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:18:16 GMT

Chris Haines said:

2/22/2007 12:11:23 PM

I spent a while trying to figure out why I was getting "PageMethods is not defined" (Firefox) or "PageMethods is undefined" (IE).

I had EnablePageMethods="true" on my ScriptManager. I had [WebMethod] on my static page method.

Turns out I had a bit of stray text on my code-in-front aspx page that was causing the javascript to go wrong. I had a few chars of text before my <%@ Page .. %> declaration that somehow messed up the javascript.

Thought I'd share this with the world because I couldn't find anything when I searched.

Jules S said:

3/9/2007 4:56:21 AM

Similar to Chris Haines, I had EnablePageMethods="true" in my ScriptManager and [WebMethod] on my static page method. I found that the method had to be on an aspx page rather than the Master page I had originally placed it. Weird.

AttilaBal said:

7/1/2007 4:42:38 PM

- I installed the latest AJAX from ajax.asp.com
- I added the EnablePageMethods="True" in the scriptmanager
- I added using System.Web.Services; in my cs file
- I added [WebMethod] befor my method

But it sed: PageMethods is undefined

So.... the article is s*it.... :S

Dan said:

7/30/2007 10:20:59 AM

Unfortunately it's not working when call PageMethods from an UserControl...

Tien said:

2/11/2008 7:03:58 AM

In my case, it works perfectly with IE7 but Firefox does not work at all.....

Ray Akkanson said:

3/12/2008 8:58:02 PM

It works fine on IE but not Firefox either

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joeyb said:

8/24/2008 7:18:57 AM

Try putting the static webmethod in a .aspx page. You cannot have your static webmethod in a user control (ascx) or a master page for some reason.