11.1. RadAjaxManager and RadAjaxManagerProxy

One of the two main controls in RadAjax is RadAjaxManager. It was created with the goal of having a component that is easily configurable and capable to provide RadAjax functionality to the pages in which it is created.

RadAjaxManager uses a graphical user interface for its configuration, which generates the markup necessary for the components to work; this markup can be manually edited. The idea is to take the controls that normally perform postback operations and translate them into AJAX requests. You do this by selecting the controls that will initiate the AJAX request. Then, for each of those controls, you define which other controls in the page will get modified by the request so that each will ...

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