ASP.NET AJAX for Developers

AJAX has gained widespread popularity in recent years as a means for making Web applications richer and more interactive - in short, to make them feel less like Web applications and more like rich clients. ASP.NET AJAX is an AJAX framework that abstracts and simplifies AJAX. With it, developers who know little about JavaScript, XML-HTTP, and other pillars of AJAX can write AJAX-enabled applications and get them to market in a timely fashion. ASP.NET AJAX shortens the development cycle by providing high-level AJAX wrappers such as UpdatePanel controls on the server and a rich library of JavaScript types and extensions on the client.