wrox press beginning ajax with asp.net (2006)

[...]... to write about With Scott Guthrie’s announcement of Atlas near the end of June 2005, I knew that Ajax was something that I wanted to be involved with I spoke with Bob Elliott of Wiley on the Tuesday of Scott Guthrie’s announcement and probably every day through July 2005 regarding Ajax and writing a book on Ajax with ASP.NET From there, things took off I started talking a lot about Ajax in some online... with Jesse James Garrett’s essay on Ajax, where the coined term became public, Ajax has really taken off as far as developer mindshare As I watched March 2005 turn into April 2005 and then into June 2005, I wondered if I was missing a an opportunity for a writing project on a killer technology I started working with the Ajax library for ASP.NET in June 2005, and I wondered if the topic of Ajax on ASP.NET. .. possible book on Ajax on ASP.NET For that, we are truly appreciative ~Wallace B McClure and the author team Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Introduction to Ajax on ASP.NET Development Trends ASP.NET Development Design Methodology Problems ASP NET Solves ix xix 1 1 2 2 2 So, What’s the Problem? Improving the User Experience What Is Ajax? 4 5 6 Advantages of Ajax History of Ajax Technologies... 347 347 351 361 363 373 xvii Introduction Thank you for purchasing Beginning Ajax with ASP.NET We know that you have a lot of options when selecting a programming book and are glad that you have chosen ours We’re sure you will be pleased with the relevant content and high quality you have come to expect from the Wrox Press line of books Ajax is a set of technologies that will revolutionize the way that... Chapter 6, “What Is Built into ASP.NET, ” discusses the various Ajax- type features that are built into the ASP.NET 2.0 release ❑ Chapter 7, Ajax. NET Professional Library,” introduces the Ajax. NET Pro library This is an open source library that has garnered significant interest in the ASP.NET community ❑ Chapter 8, “Anatomy of Ajax. NET Pro Library,” takes a deep dive into the Ajax. NET Pro library and looks... system is phased in by January 2007) At the Wrox site, you can also go to the main Wrox code download page at www .wrox. com/dynamic/ books/download.aspx to see the code available for all other Wrox books The code samples in the book are provided in C# on the server and JavaScript on the client Additionally, at both the http://BeginningAjax.com site and the book’s Wrox site, you can find updated versions... applications ❑ Ajax — Ajax is a set of client technologies that provides for asynchronous communication between the user interface and the web server along with fairly easy integration with existing technologies Given the amount of recent discussion among developers regarding Ajax, it appears that Ajax has the greatest chance among these technologies of gaining market acceptance 5 Chapter 1 What Is Ajax? So... client Figure 1-3 shows that typically Ajax operates with the assistance of some type of proxy Web browser client Ajax proxy services XML data format in over HTTP with no postback Data back in an XML format or other format without the weight of a postback Web server and associated backend services, such as web services Figure 1-3 Advantages of Ajax The advantages of Ajax over classical web based applications... develop applications that are much more user-friendly In this chapter, you are going to take a look at: ❑ ASP.NET development and how it led to Ajax ❑ What Ajax is and a high-level overview of some of its base technologies ❑ The advantages of Ajax ❑ Some things that it might not make sense to do with Ajax Development Trends If you have been developing for a while, like us old guys, you have gone through... well versed in ASP 3 Chapter 1 Upon discovering these problems, Microsoft developed ASP.NET ASP.NET greatly simplifies the web development methodology ❑ Developers no longer need to worry about processing state With ASP.NET, actions are performed within a series of events that provide statemachine-like functionality ❑ With the use of code-behind/beside model, code is separated from display By separating . 7/18/06 3:11 PM Page ii Beginning Ajax with ASP. NET 01_78544x ffirs.qxp 7/18/06 3:11 PM Page i 01_78544x ffirs.qxp 7/18/06 3:11 PM Page ii Beginning Ajax with ASP. NET Wallace B. McClure, Scott Cate,. killer technology. I started working with the Ajax library for ASP. NET in June 2005, and I wondered if the topic of Ajax on ASP. NET had enough meat to write about. With Scott Guthrie’s announcement. Introduction to Ajax on ASP. NET 1 Development Trends 1 ASP. NET Development 2 Design Methodology 2 Problems ASP. NET Solves 2 So, What’s the Problem? 4 Improving the User Experience 5 What Is Ajax? 6 Advantages