33999Article: Edit-in-Place with Ajaxhttp://24ways.org/advent/edit-in-place-with-ajaxBack on day one we looked at using the Prototype library to take all the hard work out of making a simple Ajax call. While that was fun and all, it didn?t go that far towards implementing something really practical. We dipped our toes in, but haven?t learned to swim yet.Ajax > Tips and TutorialsNov 11, 200624ways.org
The back button and behavior is one of the biggest challenges to any developer. In simple HTML pages, the back button preserves the last state of the website and even the things you have written there. Unfortunately, this reality is not possible in Ajax. Developers have to toil hard and rough so that the last state of the website is preserved. In a regular setting, the whole webpage reloads whenever the back button is pressed.
Today we will take a look at a few AjaxControlToolkit tricks. If you have been working with ASP.NET long enough you know how important this function is to your Ajax based application. In fact, I have been looking online and most of the things I see related to the latest ASP.NET release are concerns regarding AjaxControlToolkit. Without further ado – here they are:
Unfortunately, some developers have used it rather more than they should. Of course when a good thing is overused, it becomes really bad. The case of XMLHttpRequest is no different. When the function is overused it tends to overlap over some of the important things a website should have.
Then came Ajax and more specifically, JavaScript. Using the powerful interactivity of JavaScript and HTML for page layout and display, you got yourself a very powerful tool to build a website. You will not have to think where to place all that information in one place and your users will never have to scroll again. There is a command in Ajax that lets users choose what they want to read by hiding some parts of the page
Yet another framework was developed almost a year before Ajax was made. Direct Web Remoting or DWR was developed by Joe Walker in 2004. Slowly, it gathered following from different developers and its popularity increased exponentially the next year when Ajax was first introduced to the public. Today, it is one of the highly discussed frameworks among developers.
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