ASP.NET AJAX Development Approach Part 1

ASP.NET AJAX Development Approach Part 1


Introduction
The ASP.NET AJAX framework, along with the AJAX Control Toolkit that adds additional controls, extenders, and other client and server objects, provides a new unique way to develop .NET controls. It leverages the existing structures in JavaScript to create a wide array of add-ons that make developing JavaScript code easier than what it was.
In this article, I plan to review some of the new features available in the JavaScript language that Microsoft added in. I should say now that the additions are not new coding conventions to JavaScript. Rather; all of the approaches utilize all of the existing development structures available in the JavaScript language. The client library works within these constructs to make additional coding styles available. Let’s first look at the available constructs.
One important note to the reader: the ASP.NET AJAX framework exists in both a server and client form. In this article, I’m mentioning the client form mostly, which I’ll refer to as the ASP.NET AJAX client library, client library, or JavaScript library.