ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Unleashed

Chapter 2. Introduction to ASP.NET AJAX

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Introducing the Visual Studio Controls

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Introducing the Visual Studio Projects and Web Site Items

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Introducing the AJAX Control Toolkit

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As you learned in Chapter 1, “Introduction to AJAX Technologies,” creating AJAX JavaScript is very easy but over time will become difficult to maintain. The ASP.NET AJAX controls and projects make it much easier for you to create and (most importantly) maintain AJAX-based applications. This enables you to provide your users with a very rich user experience (UX) with minimal development effort.

ASP.NET AJAX was offered initially as a separate download that extended ...