Advanced ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls For .NET Framework 3.5

5. Adding Client Capabilities to Server Controls

THE POWER OF ASP.NET development has always been the development approach of using an event model that mirrors that of Windows Forms. This meant you did the majority of your development by dragging server controls onto the designer surface, setting properties of server controls, creating event handlers in code behind to handle postback events, and writing code to access a data source of some kind. This model of server-centric development has worked well for a long time, but increasingly users are demanding a richer UI experience that does not rely on postbacks and the slow response they tend to have. This presents an interesting dilemma for developers who have spent the majority of their development ...