Microsoft® ASP.NET and AJAX: Architecting Web Applications

Summary

Cheap and effective, partial rendering is the easy way to AJAX, but it doesn’t embody the demand for a change of paradigm for Web applications. Partial rendering is normally an excellent starting point in the journey to AJAX and doesn’t prevent further optimization and even radical refactoring. Opting for partial rendering or a pure AJAX design is a matter of considering the tradeoffs. But in case it isn’t clear enough already, the whole AJAX matter is a huge tradeoff.

Partial rendering provides an excellent compromise between the need to implement asynchronous and out-of-band functionality and the desire to use the same familiar ASP.NET application model. As you’ve seen in this chapter, any ASP.NET page can be easily transformed into an ...