ASP.NET AJAX Overview

Introduction

ASP.NET AJAX enables you to perform significant portions of a Web application's page processing in the browser, without requiring a round trip to the server to update the page. The ASP.NET AJAX development technologies integrate ECMAScript (JavaScript) client script libraries with the ASP.NET 2.0 server-based development platform. ASP.NET AJAX builds on the AJAX strategy for building Web applications, which enables you to make calls to Web-based applications from client script.

Why Use ASP.NET AJAX?

The ASP.NET AJAX development strategy enables you to build a new breed of Web application that has a number of advantages over traditional Web applications. AJAX-style applications offers:

• Better performance.

• Extensive user interface features.

• Partial-page updating.

• Asynchronous postbacks.

• Browser independence

ASP.NET AJAX Goals

The goal of ASP.NET AJAX is to give you a broad range of application building blocks, with the following aims:

• Helping you create ASP.NET AJAX applications.

• Integrating ASP.NET AJAX client script features with the features of ASP.NET on the server to provide a comprehensive development platform.

This is a brief ASP.NET AJAX introduction taken from asp.net. Please visit asp.net for more information about ASP.NET AJAX.

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