ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Unleashed

This is the eBook version of the printed book.

As the Internet user experience (UX) progresses, more users are demanding and expecting their custom-built business applications to provide the same UX that they see on the Internet every day. ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Unleashed empowers ASP.NET developers to easily provide this type of experience with minimal code. Author Rob Foster has built AJAX-enabled web applications for a number of major corporations and uses the experience he has gained there to explain concisely, clearly, and completely what ASP.NET developers need to learn to start taking advantage of the rich opportunities made possible by ASP.NET AJAX.

Learn ASP.NET AJAX by working with real-world examples

Use the ScriptManager and ScriptManagerProxy controls in your ASP.NET AJAX-enabled applications

Leverage the ASP.NET AJAX client-side API to maximize the flexibility of ASP.NET AJAX

Build applications that use the UpdatePanel and Timer controls

Use the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit to provide rich AJAX functionality to your web applications

Build ASP.NET AJAX-enabled extender controls

Integrate ASP.NET AJAX and .NET 3.5 with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Create ASP.NET AJAX-enabled Windows Vista Gadgets

Learn advanced AJAX concepts such as JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) and WCF Web services