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I want to create a textbox (for entering names) in my aspx application which suggests names of Employees from database.

I am pasting my code below. I am using Mysql

Default.aspx:

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true"  CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %>
<%@ Register assembly="AjaxControlToolkit" namespace="AjaxControlToolkit" tagprefix="asp" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt;

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
  <head runat="server">
    <title>Untitled Page</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
       <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" ontextchanged="TextBox1_TextChanged"></asp:TextBox>
       <asp:AutoCompleteExtender ID="TextBox1_AutoCompleteExtender" runat="server" 
                  ServiceMethod="GetCompletionList2" TargetControlID="TextBox1" 
                  UseContextKey="True">
       </asp:AutoCompleteExtender>
    </div>  
    <asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager1" runat="server">
    </asp:ScriptManager>
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

Default.aspx.cs:

// here we use a readymade class for database operations to Mysql server
using System;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Data;

using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;


using Gbs.DAL;  // for ..redymade class..

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

    [System.Web.Services.WebMethodAttribute(), System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptMethodAttribute()]
    public static string[] GetCompletionList2(string prefixText, int count, string contextKey)
    {
        myDb db = new myDb();// its class in Dal.cs

        string sql = "Select * from empdata Where empname like @prefixText";
        DataTable dt = db.getDataTable(sql);     // method in redymade class
        string[] items = new string[dt.Rows.Count];
        int i = 0;
        foreach (DataRow dr in dt.Rows)
        {
            items.SetValue(dr["empname"].ToString(), i);
            i++;
        }
        return items;
    }

    protected void TextBox1_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
    }
}

// there is no any error, the program runs successfully

A: 

AutocompleteExtender needs an .asmx web service which can be called from javascript. It won't work from your Default.aspx.

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