Advanced ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls For .NET Framework 3.5

8. ASP.NET AJAX Communication Architecture

THE COMMUNICATION ARCHITECTURE of ASP.NET AJAX is a must know for any developer. The way the client communicates with the server can influence many of your design decisions during development and can be the difference between having an efficient and easily configurable communication channel or one that is slow and hard to work with.

The communication layer that ASP.NET AJAX provides enables you to easily communicate between the client and the server and includes features such as automatic proxy generation for web services and page methods; built-in proxies for working with the ASP.NET 2.0 application services such as the authentication service, profile service, and role service; and the ability to work ...