Monday, December 24, 2007

Learning something on ASP.NET AJAX

Recently i attended a session on ASP.NET AJAX. ASP.NET AJAX adds to the power of ASP.NET. Though ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 was available as a separate add-on for ASP.NET 2.0, it has been integrated into ASP.NET in the release of ASP.NET 3.5.

AJAX is a very impressive approach for using a number of existing technologies together. It combines the power of HTML/XHTML, CSS, Javascript, DOM, XML, XSLT and XMLHttpRequest object. This helps in delivering web pages with sophisticated, responsive user interfaces and more efficient without reloading the entire browser page. This also helps makes the application and more responsive to user actions.

Regarding the ASP.NET AJAX session, this was really helpful session. I got to learn about the various controls provided by ASP.NET AJAX. Microsoft developers has put in commendable effort to provide with all the controls which can be used very easily. The usual Visual Studio feature "Drag and Drop" still holds for this new AJAX extension also. Moreover there is very little coding to be done. So looking forward to learning it in more details. I'll put in more details about the Ajax controls in the next post.

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