August 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1224 pages
34h 17m
English
Content preview from Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed
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Building Rich, Cross-Browser Interfaces with ASP.NET Ajax
With Visual Studio 2010, you can now more easily provide a high degree of user interaction within your ASP.NET applications. The tools include a set of controls, a code library, and access to a toolkit; all of these are available to help you embed client-side JavaScript in your user interface. This JavaScript can enable a richer user experience that includes modal dialog boxes, progress notification, partial-page updates, and much more. Collectively, this technology is known as Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax).
Ajax tries to break down the barrier between a thin, very dumb client and the server. In this way, it enables more real-time user interaction and at the same time offloads ...