MSDN Magazine - February 2008 - (Page 42) SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION The ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit If the only ASP.NET AJAX feature you use in Web applications is the UpdatePanel control, the user experience improvement alone makes ASP.NET AJAX a compelling solution. However, when you combine ASP.NET AJAX with the Control Toolkit, you get a comprehensive development framework that includes more than 30 different controls for adding JavaScript magic to your Web user interfaces. Moreover, your developers Zip Code: 9805 can simply add these controls 98051 to existing Web pages in 98052 Visual Studio the same way 98053 they use traditional ASP.NET 98054 Web controls today. As your 98055 developers gain experience 98056 with ASP.NET AJAX, they 98057 will find that developing 98058 Web-based user interfaces 98059 using the controls in the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit is no different—and Figure 7: TextBox control with a just as easy as—building drop-down completion list pages using traditional ASP.NET controls. One of the most popular controls in the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit is the AutoCompleteExtender control, which You’ll spend less time building, less time maintaining less time testing, & your code. adds context-sensitive completion lists to ASP.NET TextBox controls (see Figure 7). As the user enters text into the TextBox control, the list shown below the text box gets automatically updated using data retrieved via a Web service call. The AutoCompleteExtender control automatically calls back to the server to retrieve fresh content for the list when the TextBox contents change. Summary AJAX enables developers to build more interactive Web sites. Hand-coding AJAX into a site without assistance from a framework is time-consuming, error-prone, and expensive. ASP.NET AJAX comes to the rescue as a full-featured framework that simplifies development and reduces costs. With ASP.NET AJAX, your teams will deliver more exciting Web sites faster than before, using their existing skills and tools. Get Started Today www.ASP.NET is a Microsoft and community-supported Web site dedicated to all things ASP.NET. Content is continually being added to support the ASP.NET learning process. Get Started The site hosts a “Get Started” section that with dozens of “How Do I” videos that average 15 minutes in length. These videos are available in many file formats and can play right in your browser. The “How Do I” series is great for developers just getting started with ASP.NET. Learn The Learn section of the site supports feature-specific videos. Each video offers a detailed view of a specific feature, and fully explores that feature from top to bottom. AJAX A major portion of the site is dedicated to AJAX. Here you’ll find all the information about the Microsoft AJAX Client Library, as well as the ASP.NET AJAX Extensions. Also available are Quick Starts, which are live demo applications highlighting ASP. NET AJAX Framework features. In addition, code samples are available for viewing right on the site, in both Visual Basic and C#. http://www.ASP.NET http://www.ASP.NET http://www.ASP.NET
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