Summary
The tasks in this Drill demonstrate how to enhance a website with Microsoft’s ASP.NET AJAX technology. It covers important AJAX controls such as UpdatePanel, ScriptManager and ScriptManagerProxy, Timer, and UpdateProgress, as well as how to send AJAX requests to web services.
Audience
This Drill is for developers who want to learn how to use Microsoft’s ASP.NET AJAX technology to enhance website responsiveness and usability.
What you'll learn
You will learn how to use Microsoft’s AJAX technology to improve website performance and enhance the user experience. You will be able to use the important ScriptManager and UpdatePanel controls to AJAX-enable a website. You’ll also find out how to refresh a control’s content and provide progress feedback to the user, and how to send an AJAX request to a web service.
What you need to know
We assume that you’re already familiar with the concepts of programming and you’ve some experience with Visual Studio 2005. For this Drill, you’ll also need to be comfortable with Visual C# or Visual Basic syntax, and ASP.NET. Although not essential, some knowledge of JavaScript would also be useful.