1. Programming with JavaScript

AS WE COVERED IN THE PREFACE, ASP.NET AJAX is composed of three distinct sections: the Microsoft AJAX Library, ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX, and the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit. In this chapter, we focus on the programming language that powers the Microsoft AJAX Library, JavaScript.

We’re spending some time on JavaScript rather than jumping directly into programming with the Microsoft AJAX Library because successfully programming using the Microsoft AJAX Library requires a solid foundation of JavaScript, the language it was written in and extends. As much as the Library provides to ease client-side development and turn JavaScript programming into an object-oriented development experience ASP.NET developers can relate to, ...

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