7.4. Summary
The ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit makes it easy to add rich animations and interactivity to a Web application. In addition to being able to use the UpdatePanel control to enable asynchronous updates of page content, you can use the UpdatePanelAnimation to show the user that background processing is occurring. The Toolkit helps blur the distinction between desktop applications and Web applications. Modal dialogs and pop-up dialogs start to push the Web application beyond what the user expects when working in the browser.
As you can see, there are a ton of new controls at your disposal. The best thing about this is that this is a community effort as well as a Microsoft one, and the list of available ASP.NET AJAX controls is going to grow over time.
This chapter took a look at the lot of the new ASP.NET AJAX controls and how to use them in your ASP.NET applications. Remember to visit the CodePlex page for these controls often and take advantage of the newest offerings out there.
Get Professional ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
