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Working with Ajax

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) is a key tool in creating professional web applications. In essence, Ajax allows you to send and receive data to and from the server without reloading the web page. There are lots of different ways of integrating Ajax into an ASP.NET web application, and in this chapter you will continue using jQuery.

The jQuery library makes the client end of Ajax development simple to create and manage. You'll also use some jQuery plug-ins to make more complex tasks easier to implement. There are three main examples in this chapter, and through them you'll see how to perform different kinds of Ajax operation in the client and how to create the services to support them in the ASP.NET ...

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