Professional ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX

ASP.NET revolutionized web application development. The platform handles many of the complexities of creating web
applications. And now ASP.NET AJAX takes the development platform even further. The line between rich client applications and traditionally less interactive browser-based applications is being further blurred. The Microsoft AJAX Library brings objectoriented programming to JavaScript development for modern browsers, and the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions 1.0 make it easy to write rich web applications that communicate with the web server asynchronously. Again, the complexities are made easy by using ASP.NET. The new server controls that are part of ASP.NET AJAX make it simple to designate parts of the page to be updated automatically without making the user pause and wait while the data is refreshed. You can have partial page updates without writing a single line of code. Other new controls let you alert the user that background work is happening and designate regular intervals for updates to occur. And the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit makes it easy to make your user interface really come to life with animations, modal dialogs, transition effects, and more.