NET AJAX. This control is also heavily used by
other sever controls to provide partial page rendering and script file management.
Using the ScriptManager
You??™ve already used the ScriptManager control to create references on the client side with
the ASP.NET AJAX Library. To add ScriptManager to your page, simply drag and drop it
onto an ASP.NET page as shown in Figure 5-2.
Figure 5-2. The ScriptManger control
Now, if you take a look at the code behind this page, you??™ll see that placing the
ScriptManager control has caused the following script to be added to your page:
When you run the page and select View ~TRA Source in the browser, you??™ll see that
the preceding one-line script generated the following scripts among other code in the
page output: