Dedication

To those who wait

A.G.

To my wife and best friend, Emily

D.B.

To my parents, for making me who I am!

R.K.V.

Brief Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this Book

About the Authors

About the Title

About the Cover Illustration

1. ASP.NET AJAX basics

Chapter 1. Introducing ASP.NET AJAX

Chapter 2. First steps with the Microsoft Ajax Library

Chapter 3. JavaScript for Ajax developers

Chapter 4. Exploring the Ajax server extensions

Chapter 5. Making asynchronous network calls

Chapter 6. Partial-page rendering with UpdatePanels

2. Advanced techniques

Chapter 7. Under the hood of the UpdatePanel

Chapter 8. ASP.NET AJAX client components

Chapter 9. Building Ajax-enabled controls

Chapter 10. Developing with the Ajax Control Toolkit

3. ASP.NET AJAX Futures

Chapter 11. XML Script

Chapter 12. Dragging and dropping

4. Mastering ASP.NET AJAX

Chapter 13. Implementing common Ajax patterns

��Appendices

Appendix A. Installing ASP.NET AJAX

Appendix B. Tools for debugging Ajax applications

��Resources

Index

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Listings

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Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

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Foreword

Foreword