Foreword
This book is going to give you a ton of technical information about building AJAX applications with Microsoft technologies. But before you dive into the details, spend a few minutes with me here talking about why you want to do it and some ways to think about it.
AJAX, by name, has been popular for a few years. The technology, though, has been in use for quite a long time. Early versions of Microsoft’s Outlook Web Access pioneered the space to some extent. Although this was limited to Internet Explorer and used proprietary extensions, the implementation started to demonstrate what could be done in a Web application and that not every feature required a page view. Since then, many more applications have adopted the techniques.
AJAX has since ...
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