Professional ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX (Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback)

by Matt Gibbs (Author), Dan Wahlin (Author)
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Product Description
ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX is Microsoft's Ajax tool for ASP.NET developers and this book covers the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX final release. You’ll learn how to use the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX features in order to create richer, more responsive dynamic Web sites. The book walks you through examples for each featured element, demonstrating how the client and server interact to produce a better Web application, and reviews such topics as client framework, script manager control, networking stack, application services, partial page updates, control extenders, client form elements, and client behaviors.

From the Back Cover
Are you ready to build more responsive web applications with richer UI elements? This detailed guide to the Microsoft AJAX Library shows you how to bring together ASP.NET 2.0 with an object-oriented approach to JavaScript development using this new framework from Microsoft. You'll gain an in-depth understanding of the ASP.NET AJAX architecture, including the server controls, client-side JavaScript library, and runtime environment. By following the numerous examples, you'll see how much your users benefit from this new class of web applications that manipulate the browser's DOM and communicate with the server to update the user's view of a page without waiting for the entire page to be refreshed.

Written by Microsoft's lead ASP.NET AJAX developer together with an in-the-field Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional), this book guides you through the core of the Microsoft AJAX Library and the controls you will use to leverage AJAX. It provides you with code samples to take advantage of some of the popular shared-source ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit controls and extensions. And you'll work through debugging functionality in Visual Studio® and the browser as well as methods for effective testing.

What you will learn from this book

• How to create a better user experience by adding more dynamic UIs

• Steps for accessing ASP.NET profile and authentication services

• Ways to simplify programming tasks using the Microsoft AJAX Library

• Strategies for testing web applications to achieve optimal performance

• Methods for developing custom AJAX controls

Who this book is for

This book is for experienced ASP.NET developers who want to add AJAX to their applications. It is also for experienced web developers who want to move to ASP.NET and AJAX together.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Wrox; 1 edition (June 5, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470109629
• ISBN-13: 978-0470109625
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #38,131 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book, June 1, 2007

By	Scott Guthrie (Redmond, WA USA) - See all my reviews

Matt and Dan's ASP.NET AJAX book is an excellent one. It is packed with useful content, and contains a lot of great code examples that demonstrate real-world usage examples.

The book covers all of the core ASP.NET AJAX Scenarios:

- Server-Side Controls (UpdatePanel, UpdateProgress, etc)
- Client-side libraries
- Networking Stack
- Application Services
- AJAX Control Toolkit

Matt Gibbs is the development manager of ASP.NET at Microsoft, and led the ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 development team - so obviously knows his stuff well. Dan Wahlin is a great trainer and presenter of ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX. You are in very good hands with them.

I highly recommend this book.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good first AJAX reference, July 4, 2007

By	Dwight Spencer (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have nearly completed my first tour through the book. It is well-organized, written with considerable clarity, possesses a reasonable number of focused examples, and covers ALL the bases in good depth, including deployment and custom controls. Some very minor deficiencies are a scattered few forward references and a muddling of the details of JSON serialization when accessing web services, but the errata and future printings will hopefully clear these up soon.

Thua I strongly recommend it as the FIRST book to introduce yourself seriously to mainstream AJAX 2.0.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Hard to read - disorganized flow, January 24, 2009

By	A. Solorzano "ValueHunter" (ValueHunter) - See all my reviews

This book was so hard to read that I finally gave up on it and bought another book. It is not the technical part that is hard, but how the author(s) presents it. The presentation and flow is horrible. Some chapters would be okay to read and I would get hope that maybe I just did not understand the authors style, then the next chapter would go back to the very poor writing style. The authors clearly know their technical stuff, but their writing needs a lot of work.