The Microsoft AJAX Library: Making Client-Side JavaScript Easier

In the first two chapters, you began to get a sense of the power of AJAX and Microsoft’s implementation: ASP.NET AJAX. In addition, you were shown how asynchronous JavaScript and XML can make ordinary web applications more interactive and responsive. Chapter 2 provided an overview of ASP.NET 2.0 and, in particular, server controls, which simplify web development by giving developers the ability to drag and drop rich controls such as calendars or data grids into web pages. By integrating AJAX with ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft has greatly simplified the process of developing, deploying, and debugging AJAX web applications. The second chapter also introduced the features of the client-side aspect of ASP.NET AJAX: the Microsoft AJAX Library. This chapter delves more deeply into the AJAX Library, demonstrating the object-oriented programming paradigm it overlays on JavaScript and then providing some examples of the different namespaces it offers. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.