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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Ajax Hacks: Tips & Tools for Creating Responsive Web Sites by Bruce Perry
Publisher: O?????Reilly Media, Inc.; 1 edition (March 1, 2006)
438 pages; Language: English; ISBN: 0596101694

Ajax, the popular term for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is one of the most important combinations of technologies for web developers to know these days. With its rich grouping of technologies, Ajax developers can create interactive web applications with XML-based web services, using JavaScript in the browser to process the web server response. Taking complete advantage of Ajax, however, requires something more than your typical ???how-to??? book. What it calls for is Ajax Hacks from O?????Reilly. This valuable guide provides direct, hands-on solutions that take the mystery out of Ajax?????s many capabilities. Each hack represents a clever way to accomplish a specific task, saving you countless hours of searching for the right answer.

A smart collection of 100 insider tips and tricks, Ajax Hacks covers all of the technology?????s finer points. Want to build next-generation web applications today? This book can show you how. Among the multitude of topics addressed, it shows you techniques for:

* Using Ajax with Google Maps and Yahoo Maps
* Displaying Weather.com data
* Scraping stock quotes
* Fetching postal codes
* Building web forms with auto-complete functionality

Ajax Hacks also features a number of advanced hacks for accelerated web developers. Discover how to create huge, maintainable bookmarklets, how to use client-side storage for Ajax applications, and how to call a built-in Java object from JavaScript using Ajax. The book even addresses best practices for testing Ajax applications and improving maintenance, performance, and reliability for JavaScript code.

The latest in O???Reilly?????s celebrated Hacks series, Ajax Hacks smartly complements other O?????Reilly titles such as Head Rush Ajax and JavaScript: The Definitive Guide.

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Ajax in Action by Dave Crane, Eric Pascarello, Darren James
Publisher: Manning Publications; 1 edition (October 1, 2005)
680 pages; Language: English; ISBN: 1932394613

Web users are getting tired of the traditional web experience. They get frustrated losing their scroll position; they get annoyed waiting for refresh; they struggle to reorient themselves on every new page. And the list goes on. With asynchronous JavaScript and XML, known as ???Ajax,??? you can give them a better experience. Once users have experienced an Ajax interface, they hate to go back. Ajax is new way of thinking that can result in a flowing and intuitive interaction with the user.

Ajax in Action helps you implement that thinking?????it explains how to distribute the application between the client and the server (hint: use a ???nested MVC??? design) while retaining the integrity of the system. You will learn how to ensure your app is flexible and maintainable, and how good, structured design can help avoid problems like browser incompatibilities. Along the way it helps you unlearn many old coding habits. Above all, it opens your mind to the many advantages gained by placing much of the processing in the browser. If you are a web developer who has prior experience with web technologies, this book is for you.

What?????s Inside

* Ajax principles
* Why Ajax design patterns matter
* How to avoid Ajax pitfalls
* Examples of Ajax in action: type-ahead suggest, live searching using XSL, and many more.
* Examples using Ajax frameworks: Prototype, Scriptaculous, x and Rico
* Ajax usability, security, and performance

Table of Contents

PART 1 RETHINKING THE WEB APPLICATION
A new design for the Web, First steps with Ajax, Introducing order to Ajax

PART 2 CORE TECHNIQUES

PART 3 PROFESSIONAL AJAX
The user experience, Security and Ajax, Performance

PART 4 AJAX BY EXAMPLE
Dynamic double combo, Type-ahead suggest, The enhanced Ajax web portal, Live search using XSLT, Building stand-alone applications with Ajax

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Pragmatic Ajax: A Web 2.0 Primer by Justin Gehtland, Ben Galbraith, Dion Almaer
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf; 1 edition (April 1, 2006)
200 pages; Language: English; ISBN: 0976694085

It?????s not just another book on Ajax. It?????s Pragmatic Ajax: a concise, complete look at a new way of envisioning and implementing browser-based applications. Ajax turns static web pages into interactive applications. Now you can deploy rich-client applications to clients without sacrificing the easy deployment of web applications. But to many folks, Ajax seems difficult. That?????s why we produced this book. As a Pragmatic guide, it strips away the mystery and shows you the easy way to make Ajax work for you.

We cover the the basics of DHTML, JavaScript, and the infamous XmlHttpRequest call. You?????ll see how to add Ajax to existing programs, and design new applications to exploit the power of Web 2.0. Learn the three layers of Ajax framework, and when (and how) to use each. See how to create rich clients, use visual effects, add client-side validation, and handle forms. Write applications that degrade gracefully if clients don?????t support JavaScript. And see how to integrate your Ajaxified clients into Java, .NET, and Ruby on Rails server frameworks.

With Pragmatic Ajax, you?????ll:

* Understand the breadth of the Ajax/Web 2.0 landscape, and go-indepth on how Ajax works
* Learn how JavaScript works with your server-side framework
* See how to easily apply Ajax techniques to an existing application?????and when not to
* Know what?????s coming by looking at new features and frameworks currently in active development.

Writing dynamic applications isn?????t that hard. Folks are awed by Google Maps, but it isn?????t rocket science (apart from the satellite pictures). As a special bonus, see how to implement your own Google Maps-like application using DHTML.

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Ajax burst onto the Web development scene by offering highly interactive, desktop-like Web applications that can be deployed through any modern Web browser without the need for special plug-ins. Ajax is built on existing Web technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, and it is used in conjunction with your favorite server-side language. Foundations of Ajax explains how to combine these technologies effectively to implement Ajax into your new or existing Web applications. Like you, we are developers who are ???in the trenches,??? tasked with building Web-enabled applications that provide real value to our customers. As the Web continues to grow, the demand for more expressive and engaging interfaces will continue to increase.

Much of the early hype surrounding Ajax centered on its use by Internet powerhouses such as Google and Amazon. However, just because the initial forays into Ajax were pioneered by leading software development firms doesn?????t mean your application wouldn?????t also benefit from these techniques. You already know how to develop Web applications, so this book uses specific, focused examples to teach the Ajax tools and techniques you?????ll need to bring your applications to life. Armed with this book and your existing development expertise, you too will be able to apply Ajax techniques to your application to enrich the end user?????s experience.

When we first saw the potential of Ajax, we knew we had to start leveraging it for our own applications. Along the way we?????ve learned some hard-earned knowledge that we thought needed to be shared with the rest of the development community. With this book you?????ll be able to easily extend your own applications with Ajax and have fun while doing it. We hope that someday we?????ll be reading about your great Ajax-enabled application!

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