Chapter 5. AJAX Web Parts

  • Understand the fundamentals of AJAX programming.

  • Learn how to program with the ASP.NET AJAX Framework.

  • Learn how to program and consume a service-oriented API by using XML data streams and Web services.

  • Implement AJAX components within Web Parts.

  • Use the SharePoint AJAX Toolkit to create rich Internet applications on the WSS platform.

Introduction

ASP.NET AJAX is the newest addition to ASP.NET 2.0 and is a supported Microsoft framework for next-generation Web development using AJAX technologies. AJAX is shorthand for "Asynchronous JavaScript + XML," an approach to Web applications that utilizes asynchronous data requests from the page with a client-side JavaScript engine. It is not one technology, but rather a combination of ...

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