Question

is there a way to reference the page control in a webservice? something like this:

[WebService(Namespace = "http://test.org/")]
public class Search : System.Web.Services.WebService
    {

      public Search()
        {
             Page.Controls.Add(new Control()); // can I get a reference to Page?

      }
   }

Answer 1

This seems like a very odd design approach. In general a called method should have no knowledge about, or dependencies on the caller. In this case the web method would need knowledge about the page calling it. I don’t think this is possible, and even if it was, consider the possibility that it may not even be a page calling the web service. It could be any kind of application.