ASP.NET Ajax in Action

by Dave Ward, David Barkol, Rama Krishna Vavilala, et al.

Book Overview

ASP.NET AJAX puts the power of Ajax into the hands of Microsoft ASP developers.

With this technology, ASP.NET developers can easily build more interactive

and highly personalized web applications that work across all the most

popular browsers.

ASP.NET AJAX in Action

introduces you to Ajax applications and to the

ASP.NET AJAX technology. Beginners will appreciate the clear explanations of

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933988142
• ISBN13: 9781933988146
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Manning Publications
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

The only ASP.NET AJAX book you will need

This book provides excellent coverage of ASP.NET AJAX and is geared towards the expert ASP.NET developer. Readers who are looking for a lighter introduction to AJAX will get plenty of value out of this book, but they may be better off buying a 24 hour reference book or similar title. But if you need to really use AJAX in the real world I highly recommend this book. The book is well organized, and the chapters build logically on the previous ones. The layout is accessible, so I can use this book as a reference or for in-depth review. I greatly appreciated their coverage of advanced topics thus saving me having to go online as I usually need to do once it's time to apply the technology to the real-world. The only chapter I skipped was on XML script, which is a futures technology that may not eventually be adopted. I would give this book 6 stars if I could because it represents everything that is done right in a technology book. Highly recommended.

Very good book

This is an excellent book. It explains the intricate details of an [..] Ajax web application. The general misconception about [...] AJAX with most people is the extensive use of UpdatePanels but they never try to uncover the details. This book covers these in a very descriptive way. Excellent read indeed.

A highly recommended book on a surprisingly useful library

I had written off ASP.NET AJAX as bloated and for beginners until I bought this excellent book. While I have done AJAX by hand in the past, I'm now a convert to the advantages of leveraging this powerful library. I highly recommend this book both for beginners who want to start with ASP.NET AJAX and those professionals looking to either leverage this library, or to be convinced that they need to. The book is full of practical examples that I was able to apply immediately to my code, as well as thorough explanations that enabled me to expand on and understand the code provided

Solid foundation + great examples

I don't normally give a rave review about books unless I was really satisfied with the book, but this book really is a great book. First of all, apart from it being an ASP.NET AJAX book, one of things I consider when buying a book is the overall flow of the book - the flows between paragraphs and the flows between chapters. On that note, ASP.NET Ajax in Action has a great flow. Especially the transitions of the book and the divisions of the chapters were well put into the book, so it could feel like reading a novel in some cases. On the technical side, I like technical books that have a lot of examples that make good sense. This book is full of examples, which is very imporant for understanding a new technology. Another thing I like about th book is the detailed examplanations of the ASP.NET Ajax foundations. For example, it doesn't talk about UpdatePanel until Chatper 6 and 7, which most of ASP.NET developers like to just use for quick development. However, this book does a good job of illustrating the overall architecure of the Ajax framework, and does not neglect that Javascript is also a big part in developing Ajax-enabled websites. Unlike other ASP.NET Ajax books, this book has a few chapters dedicated to client-centric ASP.NET Ajax development, which is necessary for building hard-core ajax sites and components. To conclude, this book is a must-have for asp.net developers and you can use it as both a reference book and a learning material.

Clearly the best ASP.NET AJAX Book - buy it NOW!

I do a lot of reading, and to the best of my knowledge my personal .NET book collection is bigger than anyone else's. The first thing I noticed about this book is the smooth and highly readable writing style - very rare to see in a technical book. As I read through the chapters it became clear to me that the content was no less stunning than the readability! The charts and tables are not merely a reprint of MSDN, and the authors dominated the subject without making it dry like a reference manual. It was obviously their goal to ensure that readers already familiar with ASP.NET in general would become a subject expert on AJAX just by studying this book. The real world example code stands alone among the other books: this code works and it is highly relevant instead of being a bunch of contrived example snippets! There is no better book on ASP.NET AJAX. I am looking for any other books from these authors - I'll order them without even thinking about it. There's a very short list of authors about whom I can make that statement. And I'll keep my eye on the Manning publishing company from now on. They know how to edit books well, and they selected the best authors available.