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Book Description
*Written by a high-power team of Microsoft MVPs, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the ASP.NET AJAX features

*After a quick overview of the architecture and features of ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX, coverage then goes on to show developers how to build richer, more responsive dynamic Web sites and Web applications

*Dives into such topics as ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX user interface design issues, JavaScript enhancements with AJAX, how to use the UpdatePanel for implementing server-side controls, and XML scripting in AJAX

*Also offers an outline of the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAXControl Toolkit, and discusses implementing drag and drop functions, databinding, debugging and security, ASP.NET services, and bridging and gadgets

*The companion Web site provides readers with a rich set of code examples

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Written by a high-power team of Microsoft MVPs, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the ASP.NET AJAX features. After a quick overview of the architecture and features of ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX, coverage then goes on to show developers how to build richer, more responsive dynamic Web sites and Web applications. The book dives into such topics as ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX user interface design issues, JavaScript enhancements with AJAX, how to use the UpdatePanel for implementing server-side controls, and XML scripting in AJAX. It also offers an outline of the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAXControl Toolkit, and discusses implementing drag and drop functions, databinding, debugging and security, ASP.NET services, and bridging and gadgets. The companion Web site provides readers with a rich set of code examples.

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Too many authors, 15 Mar 2008

By	Mr Cook "C" - See all my reviews

I'm normally pleased with Wrox publications but I found that this book has too many authors and the content does not flow. Material is repeated in separate chapters. It feels like they just compiled it quickly without thinking about the final result. I'm looking for something better now.

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Everything about AJAX included - but where?, 20 Jan 2008

By	Michael Ayers (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

After purchasing some dissapointing titles in the past, I now work to a golden rule, each title must have at least 5 reviews and an average of 4 or more stars rating. This has now served me well for some time.
With AJAX being reletively new, this rule was hard to apply and I needed to know about AJAX very quickly to complete a project.
So after studying the titles available for hours I decided on this title and another that had 1 review and 5 stars.

After looking inside the books contents I decided that this was the one for me, particualy since I have other Wrox books and even paid for next day delivery. That's when the problem started!
While the author's obviously have a vast knowledge of AJAX and the coverage in the book is complete, as a novice, the information just didn't come out of the pages for me!

Whilst each chapter is laid out on each subject of AJAX, the contents seemed to be unclear and I found myself reading the same pages several times to try and understand them!
Whilst there are examples on the use of AJAX (code behind pages are in C#, but the vb code can be downloaded from the Wrox website) and its controls, a real world example would have been nice.

I gave the book 2 stars because the content is there and helped me find the missing answers on the internet, so maybe this book would be valuable to someone who can read a subject and take it in easily.

Once I had ordered the book, I found it on the US site and the reviews there were poor, whilst my other choice had gained another 6 reviews of 4 stars or more and I have since seen this book which makes me feel even more let down!

If you need to know AJAX, I believe you may do better elsewhere..

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