Customer Reviews

ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Unleashed

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I read this because the ASP.NET 3.5 MCTS Training Kit will not be released until April, and I want to take the test before then.

I found the examples to be rather difficult to repeat, as information was often left out that would be necessary to get them to work properly.

I admittedly haven't spent a ton of time with AJAX. Rob does a great job of introducing AJAX to someone who doesn't have a lot of experience with it in a very easy to consume way. Using this resource I was able to quickly AJAX-ify one of my SharePoint Web Parts in under 30m that contained a lot of complexity. This is a fantastic learning tool and ongoing resource!

I didn't fully understand Ajax until I read this book. This book helped me to fully understand the concepts and now my project is well under way! Thank Rob!

this book is what I was looking for, even though I have experience with Ajax toolkit, it is refreshing to see how things works

For my purposes as a dotnet (C# ASPX) programmer, this was very disappointing. Maybe useful for very advanced programmers but not useful for beginners or intermediate coders. The coverage of dotnet issues is absolutely minimal. He does not even bother to cover cascadingdropdowns, which are useful in many applications. Very little useful coverage of database hookups and almost nothing about SQL Server or dataobjects. And why is Sharepoint covered here? I think he ran out of steam.

As far as the other reviews, I find it difficult to believe any of them actually used this book as a coding reference, a tutorial, or a guide. Compare this book to Walther's ASP.NET 3.5 Unleased, which is absolutely crammed full of sample code and detailed hints, tips, and explanations. AJAX is vital stuff, so please, will someone write a complete guide to AJAX in the dotnet world? Please!

It gives what Ajax can do for me. However if I decide to open Visual studio and make use of some controls then I have a hard time to do so. I was interested in the topic to Ajaxify SharePoint however the codeplex project ajaxify sharepoint solved all my questions and hence I ended up skipping this chapter.

I found it to be a great Ajax review book but not useful from a developer point of view

This book is not for people who have no experience with ASP.NET. Rather, if you are a seasoned pro at building Postback-style ASP.NET applications but you want to make your apps more interactive, more responsive, and overall bring them up to par with the rest of the web - this is the book for you.

This book provides clear, concise explanations for what Ajax is and how it is implemented and made available for developers within ASP.NET 3.5. When you're done reading this book you will be able to do more than just make some pieces of your page refresh without postback, you'll be able to fully consume JSON services, dynamically re-render pieces of your page on the fly, implement client-side paging, querying, updating - and much more.

The bottom line is if you build commercial-quality ASP.NET applications and you want them to be clean, crisp, highly responsive, and up-to-date, you need this book.