Packt Publishing Microsoft AJAX Library Essentials Jul 2007 eBook BBL

Microsoft AJAX Library Essentials: Client-side ASP.NET AJAX 1.0

Explained (c) by Packt Publishing

The type of the release is: eBook

In the PDF format with ISBN: 1847190987 and Pub Date: July 27, 2007

The size of the release is: 02 disks x 2.88mb

And released on: 01/13/2008

A practical tutorial to using Microsoft AJAX to enhance the user

experience of your ASP.NET web applications covering the most up to date

versions of the AJAX tools. With ASP.NET AJAX (formerly known as ATLAS)

developers can quickly create rich and responsive web pages with

efficient server communication by simply adding a few server controls to

their pages. Because ASP.NET AJAX is integrated with ASP.NET, developers

have full access to the built-in ASP.NET 2.0 application services and

the entire .NET Framework. This book is the most practical and efficient

resource a reader can get to enter the exciting world of AJAX in

ASP.NET. Targeting the most recent version of the ASP.NET AJAX tools,

this book will teach you how to create faster, lighter, and richer web

applications by using the Microsoft AJAX technologies to their full

potential. Beginning with a hands-on tour of the basic technologies

associated with AJAX, JavaScript, XMLHttpRequest, JSON, and the DOM,

you'll move on to a crash course in the Microsoft AJAX tools. You'll

understand the architecture of the Microsoft AJAX components, how they

all fit together, and exactly what they can do for you. At every stage

of your journey, you'll be able to try out examples to illuminate the

theory, and consolidate your understanding. In addition to learning

about the client and server controls, you'll also see how to handle

errors and debug your ASP.NET AJAX applications. To get your client

pages interacting with your server, the Microsoft AJAX framework allows

you to consume web services on the client without having to worry about

the underlying protocol used for exchanging the data. You will see how

to create ASP.NET web services in practice, and consume them in your

AJAX applications. To get your client pages interacting with servers on

other domains, the Microsoft AJAX framework provides bridges that allow

you to make cross-domain calls seamlessly. This book shows you how this

works and how to implement it, including how to consume services from

Amazon's ECS (E-Commerce Services). Microsoft AJAX brings the power of

the ASP.NET data presentation server controls to the client, enhancing

the power and responsiveness of controls such as the GridView and

DetailsView. You will learn about using the data client controls to

create truly responsive web applications that interact seamlessly not

just with your servers and your data, but also with other servers and

other sources of data should you choose. This book is a practical

tutorial to get you confident and comfortable working with the Microsoft

AJAX suite. Packed with step-by-step examples and detailed explanations

of how the examples work, this book is the ideal first step into the

exciting world of AJAX in ASP.NET. This book is written for ASP.NET

developers who not only want to understand how Microsoft AJAX will

impact on the way they develop web applications, but also want to make

the transition to better, more responsive applications as easily as

possible. You will need access to either Visual Studio Web Developer

Express or Visual Studio .NET 2005. All the code examples are in C#.

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