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Microsoft .NET Development Series “Supported by the leaders and principal
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Montgomery Principal Group Program Manager, Developer Division, Microsoft
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ASP.NET AJAX server controls can encapsulate even the most powerful AJAX
functionality, helping you build more elegant, maintainable, and scalable
applications. This is the first comprehensive, code-rich guide to custom
ASP.NET AJAX server controls for experienced ASP.NET developers. Unlike other
books on ASP.NET AJAX, this book focuses solely on server control development
and reflects the significant improvements in ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX and the latest
Visual Studio 2008 features for streamlining AJAX development Adam Calderon
and Joel Rumerman first review the core Microsoft AJAX Library and JavaScript
techniques needed to support a rich client-side experience. Next, they build
upon these techniques showing how to create distributable AJAX-enabled controls
that include rich browser-independent JavaScript client-side functionality. The
authors thoroughly explain both the JavaScript and .NET aspects of control
development and how these two distinct environments come together to provide a
foundation for building a rich user experience using ASP.NET AJAX. Create
object-oriented cross-browser JavaScript that supports .NET style classes,
interfaces, inheritance, and method overloading Work with components,
behaviors, and controls, and learn how they relate to DOM elements Learn
Sys.Application and the part it plays in object creation, initialization, and
events in the Microsoft AJAX Library Build Extender and Script controls that
provide integrated script generation for their corresponding client-side
counterparts Localize ASP.NET AJAX controls including client script Discover
ASP.NET AJAX client and server communication architecture and the new support
for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Understand ASP.NET AJAX Application
Services Create custom Application Services Design controls for a partial
postback environment Understand the AJAX Control Toolkit architecture and the
many features it provides Develop highly interactive controls using the AJAX
Control Toolkit Understand AJAX Control Toolkit architecture and build controls
that utilize the toolkit Foreword xxv Preface xxvii Acknowledgments xxxv
About the Authors xxxix Part I: Client Code Chapter 1: Programming with
JavaScript 3 Chapter 2: Microsoft AJAX Library Programming 51 Part II: Controls
Chapter 3: Components 121 Chapter 4: Sys.Application 169 Chapter 5: Adding
Client Capabilities to Server Controls 207 Chapter 6: ASP.NET AJAX Localization
255 Chapter 7: Control Development in a Partial Postback Environment 317 Part
III: Communication Chapter 8: ASP.NET AJAX Communication Architecture 371
Chapter 9: Application Services 425 Part IV: AJAX Control Toolkit Chapter 10:
ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Architecture 481 Chapter 11: Adding Client
Capabilities to Server Controls Using the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit 513
Appendixes Appendix A: JavaScript in Visual Studio 2008 547 Appendix B:
Validating Method Parameters 555 Appendix C: ASP.NET Handlers and Modules 559
Appendix D: Client Error Handling Code 569 Index 577