I'm new to web services. I need to call a web service from Javascript. I can get this to work asynchronously, but I want to do this synchronously (I need the results of the web service before I can continue to process).
I keep seeing how to do this using the file webservice.htc but I can't find that file anywhere, including Microsoft's site. I'm guessing this is no longer supported. Can someone give me pointers on how to do this? I have code below. I read something that if you don't give a callback handler (OnComplete), the call is made synchronously, but then I don't know how to get the return value (ret variable in my code is undefined after the web service call). This code works asynchronously but I need it to work synchronously. I'm doing this with .NET 2005 using Ajax Toolkit.
Any help greatly appreciated.
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