What Won’t Be Covered

This book is written to explain the service-oriented AJAX architecture pattern—and is not a comprehensive reference to the complete Microsoft AJAX Library, ASP.NET, and WCF. I’ll explain enough of these technologies to get you started with the pattern and make the book a readable reference. You might need to refer to MSDN documentation and use your favorite Web search engine to supplement these concepts with comprehensive reference material.

Because I’m taking an AJAX-purist approach with the service-oriented AJAX architecture pattern, I won’t include any documentation on the Update Panel. The Update Panel is a pseudo-AJAX approach that provides only some of the benefits of AJAX, but it’s primarily used to extend legacy code ...

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