Static/Shared Webmethod

[Rory Becker]

I have been testing a beta feature in Coderush (CodeIssues) which has prompted
me with the suggestion that one of my WebMethods in a Webservice, could be
Shared/Static and is not.

I have never though about this before but I guess I had assumed that there
is very little point in declaring such a method static or not as the web
is stateless ( isn't it?)

Is Coderush correct to suggest this or should I be filing a bug?

 

[bruce barker]

if a class method does not reference any its instance members, then it can be
declared static (class method rather than instance method).

class methods are marginally faster (one less parameter, the class instance)
and can be called without creating a class instance.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)

 

[Steven Cheng [MSFT]]

Hi Rory,

I think Bruce's explanation is reasonable. However, for ASP.NET webservice,
webmethod does should be defined as instance method rather than static. I
think the Coderush might just treat webservice class as as a normal
class(doesn't have sense of webservice). Anyway, I think you you can
report this behavior since in webservice context, that message does be a
bit misleading.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:59:30 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
From: Rory Becker <[email protected]>
Subject: Static/Shared Webmethod