12.4. Summary
In this chapter, you took the skills you have learned thus far and applied them to building your own Web-based widgets. This chapter showed you many practical widgets that Ajax makes possible.
First, you learned how to build a widget to consume the Weather.com XML service, transform the XML, and display the data to the user. Next, you learned how to use Yahoo! Finance's stock quote CSV services to create a stock watcher widget. The chapter went on to describe how to create a widget to search a blog's database using MSSQL. Using the Json.NET library, you learned how to build JSON strings and output them to the client.
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