Developing Service-Oriented AJAX Applications on the Microsoft® Platform

Chapter 8. Building AJAX Controls

After completing this chapter, you will

• Understand the control architecture of the Microsoft AJAX Library.

• Understand controls, events, and event-based control development.

• Understand and utilize AJAX behaviors.

• Utilize AJAX controls in your AJAX applications.

In Chapter 7, I introduced the Microsoft AJAX Library component implementation, in which components serviced by Sys.Application can be created and maintained by using event and property bindings through the Sys.Component.Create ($create) method. I also described how the component infrastructure supports event-driven programming and object disposal.

To provide component functionality that is tied to DOM elements, the AJAX library provides the base classes Sys.UI.Behavior ...