Question

I have a webpart which calls ASP.NET handler to accomplish the autocomplete functionality.

ASHX File
    <%@ WebHandler Language="C#" Class="MyService.MyAutoComplete" CodeBehind="MyAutoComplete.ashx.cs" %>

Code Behind File

namespace MyService
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Summary description for MyAutoComplete
    /// </summary>
    public class MyAutoComplete : IHttpHandler
    {
        public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
        {
            var searchTerm = context.Request.QueryString["term"].ToString();

            context.Response.Clear();
            context.Response.ContentType = "application/json";


            var search = GetList();

            JavaScriptSerializer jsSerializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
            string json = jsSerializer.Serialize(search);
            context.Response.Write(json);
            context.Response.End();
        }

    }
}

This is my JQuery call

$(function () {
            $("#<%= txtSearchInput.ClientID %>").autocomplete({
                source: "/_Layouts/My Service/MyAutoComplete.ashx",
                minLength: 2,
                select: function (event, ui) {
                    $(this).val(ui.item.value);
                }
            });
        });

The “My Service” is SharePoint layout folder inside the webpart project.

When I make call thro JQuery it throws the following error
“Could not create type ‘MyService.MyAutoComplete'”

Any help appreciated.

Answer 1

It Seems SharePoint components have its own way of identifying the components :). After googling I found the following solution.

<%@ WebHandler Language="C#"  Class="MyService.MyAutoComplete,MyProject, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=87c41094797c589e" %>