How to get Page.UICulture in a static WebMethod?

Question

How to get the Page.UICulture in a static WebMethod function. The following gives me an error:

Page.UICulture = System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture;

The error I get:

An object reference is required for the non static field,method or property

Answer 1

Simply, you can't.

The property Page is not available to a static method, and that makes sense, since in the context of that static WebMethod, you don't have a page.

You could save the relevant properties in a Session variable and get it from the session info in your WebMethod. Note you have to set [WebMethod(EnableSession=true)] to be able to get the session info from a WebMethod.