Chapter 2. Creating Interactive Web Parts Using ASP.NET Ajax

Ajax and ASP.NET Ajax deliver compelling web sites that are highly responsive and offer a great user experience. You may have heard this before, and the person who told you was not lying. Ajax makes it possible to perform asynchronous communication with a server, and makes creating advanced user interfaces using JavaScript a lot easier. ASP.NET Ajax is a Microsoft implementation of Ajax.

This chapter describes what Ajax and ASP.NET Ajax are and provides an overview of the more popular ASP.NET Ajax implementations. We will also explain how to create Ajax server-side applications within the confines of a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment. Then we detail how to deal with ...

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