... ROADMAP
Silverlight and ASP. NET
Revealed
Foundations of
ASP. NET AJAX
Pro ASP. NET 3.5
in C# 2008
Pro ASP. NET 3.5
Server Controls with
AJAX Components
Pro Silverlight 2.0
Ajax Patterns
and Best Practices
Beginning ... (Cascading Style Sheets).
ASP. NETAJAX is a technology that is designed to make Ajax applications much easier to develop,
debug, and deploy. It’s available at
http:/ /asp. net/ ajax/
, and will be covered ... best-of-both-worlds approach. And here is where
ASP. NET arrived to fill the gap.
The Arrival of ASP. NET
ASP. NET was the result of developers and architects sitting back and thinking about the
direction...
... changes it and later triggers a postback, ASP. NET looks at the view state
when it receives the response and sees that the text box value has changed. ASP. NET then
processes the postback and fires ... default options are as follows:
ASP. NET Web Site: This is a web site that uses ASP. NET to execute. It comes with a
sample file called
Default.aspx, which is an ASP. NET Web Forms application. (This ... you’ll look at how to download, install, and use this to build, deploy, and
debug ASP. NET server applications. Finally, you’ll survey the lifetime of an ASP. NET appli-
cation, learning how the framework...
... best-of-both-worlds approach. And here is where
ASP. NET arrived to fill the gap.
The Arrival of ASP. NET
ASP. NET was the result of developers and architects sitting back and thinking about the
direction ... (Cascading Style Sheets).
ASP. NETAJAX is a technology that is designed to make Ajax applications much easier to develop,
debug, and deploy. It’s available at
http:/ /asp. net/ ajax/ , and will be covered ...
Standard: Contains the standard suite of ASP. NET server controls
Data: Contains the suite of ASP. NET server controls that can be bound to data
Validation: Contains the suite of ASP. NET server controls...
... the ASP. NETAJAX architecture, taken on a tour
of the AJAX Library, and shown how the AJAX Extensions integrate with ASP. NET 2.0.
Introducing ASP. NET 2.0 Server Controls
Understanding the ASP. NET ... using
Visual Studio 2005, you will also need the ASP. NETAJAX Extensions and the ASP. NET
AJAX Toolkit, which can be downloaded from
http:/ /ajax .asp. net
.
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a set of server controls that allows you to add AJAX functionality to a web page by simply
dragging and dropping controls...
... Basics
1. ASP. NET AJAX, Ajax, and ASP. NET
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ASP. NETAJAXandAjax 3
ASP. NETAJAXand ASP. NET 5
ASP. NETAJAX Prerequisites and ... work
with ASP. NET AJAX.
For Further Reading
http:/ /ajax .asp. net/
ASP. NETAJAX home page
http:/ /ajax .asp. net/ downloads/default.aspx?tabid=47
ASP. NETAJAX downloads
http:/ /ajax .asp. net/ docs/InstallingASPNETAJAX.aspx
ASP. NET ... Organized
Chapter 1, ASP. NET AJAX, Ajax, and ASP. NET, gives a broad overview of Ajax and
the ASP. NETAJAX framework and then covers the installation of ASP. NET AJAX, a
review of its structure, and a first...
... countless
places in ASP. NETAJAX controls and libraries. Table 4-19 lists all the global shortcuts in
the ASP. NETAJAX Client Library.
Table 4-19. Global Shortcuts in the ASP. NETAJAX Client Library
Shortcut ... 4);
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I
n the first three chapters, you looked at the basics of ASP. NETAJAXand how you ... into the rich and powerful server controls in ASP. NETAJAXand how easily they can
be used to add quite capable AJAX functionality to your web applications.
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ASP. NET 2.0
AJAX Extension ... USING ASP. NETAJAX 239
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BUILDING A SAMPLE APPLICATION USING ASP. NET AJAX
Figure 10-1. An ASP. NET AJAX- based stock application
Understanding ... price information and analytic charts. Everything is handled under the hood
by the ASP. NETAJAX runtime. You concentrate on building your application, and by
wrapping standard ASP. NET controls with...
... of how ASP. NETAJAX enables AJAX functionality in existing ASP. NET pages
using partial-page updates.
This chapter gave you a high-level overview of the main ASP. NETAJAX server controls
and how ... should surface in future releases of ASP. NET AJAX.
Using ASP. NETAJAX server controls is the easiest and quickest path to implementing
AJAX functionality in your ASP. NET application. They are also ... available to ASP. NETAJAX
programmers. It walked you through using the
ScriptManager
control, which is at the
heart of ASP. NET AJAX. This control takes care of managing the ASP. NETAJAX runtime...
... objects and a data access layer.
Summary
The ToDo List application is an excellent example of an ASP. NET application and how it
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Using Server Controls in ASP. NET
AJAX
T
his chapter follows on from Chapter 5, which introduced you to the ASP. NET AJAX
server ... application.
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Note
You can download Scott’s ToDo List application in addition to video tutorials about this and other
ASP. NETAJAX topics on
http:/ /ajax .asp. net
.
Figure 6-3. The task list manager application
CHAPTER...
... the scope of this chapter.
Installing the ASP. NETAJAX Control Toolkit
The ASP. NETAJAX Control Toolkit is not a stand-alone entity and requires ASP. NET AJAX
to be installed because it heavily ... with the ASP. NETAJAX server controls and have seen
many examples of their use. The first release version of ASP. NETAJAX also shipped with a
set of controls packed under the ASP. NETAJAX Toolkit ... the
ASP. NETAJAX Control Toolkit.
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