ASP.NET 3.5 Unleashed

Chapter 33. Using Client-Side ASP.NET AJAX

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IN THIS CHAPTER

• Making JavaScript Look Like C#

• Calling Web Services from the Client

• Creating Custom AJAX Controls and Behaviors

• Summary

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This chapter is about the future of building web applications. In this chapter, you learn how to build “pure” Ajax applications that execute on the browser instead of the server.

In the first part of this chapter, you learn how Microsoft has extended JavaScript so that the JavaScript language more closely resembles .NET languages such as C# and VB.NET. You also learn how Microsoft has added useful debugging and tracing support to JavaScript.

Next, we get to the heart of client-side AJAX. You learn how to perform Ajax calls from the browser to the server. ...