In this chapter, you will be introduced to Microsoft??™s ASP.NET AJAX, which
allows you to build AJAX applications more easily and manage their development,
deployment, and debugging using Visual Studio 2005.
ASP.NET AJAX consists of two different pieces. The first is a set of script files, collectively
named the Microsoft AJAX Library, which gets deployed to the client. These files
implement a number of JavaScript classes that provide common functions and an objectoriented
programming framework.
The other piece of ASP.NET AJAX is the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions, which includes
a set of server controls that allows you to add AJAX functionality to a web page by simply
dragging and dropping controls onto the Visual Studio 2005 page designer. Through the
use of these server controls, developers can deliver AJAX functionality to the client without
doing much hand-coding because the server-side ASP.NET controls generate the
required HTML and JavaScript. This feature is one of the fundamental underpinnings of
ASP.NET and is essential to understanding the AJAX Extensions.
Pages:
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61