Introducing Microsoft® ASP.NET AJAX

Chapter 5. The AJAX Control Toolkit

In this chapter:
Extender Controls	140
Introducing the AJAX Control Toolkit	150
The Accordion Control	157
The Rating Control	160
The ReorderList Control	164
The TabContainer Control	169
AJAX Control Toolkit Extenders	172
Conclusion	205

Although ASP.NET AJAX is a framework designed to bring more programming power to the Web client, it happens to be mostly used by server developers—for example, ASP.NET developers or, at least, Web developers with strong server-side skills. Unfortunately, for the time being, there’s no way to add rich capabilities and functionalities to the Web client other than by crafting good and tricky JavaScript code.

ASP.NET AJAX takes up the challenge and provides two ways for developers to build rich Web ...