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This article describe an abstract web part class developed for the SharePoint 2007 (WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007) platform. The web part contains the logic to address some known conflicts between SharePoint and ASP.NET AJAX and is designed as the base class for all AJAX enabled SharePoint web parts.

Most of the emphasis with AJAX is on how to perform an asynchronous update at the client. Dino Esposito considers the other end of the connection: how exactly does the server provide the data that the client needs?

There's no reason to get lost with Atlas, Microsoft's framework for building fast, responsive AJAX-enabled Web apps. Get your bearings by following along as we build two introductory applications: a calendar and a content portal.

Starting with ASP.NET 3.5 SP 1, the ScriptManager control in the ASP.NET AJAX Framework includes functionality for creating history points in an AJAX-enabled web page. Adding a history point creates an entry in the browser's history for a particular page state.

This article shows how to add history points using the ScriptManager control. In particular, it shows how to record history points whenever the user pages or sorts a GridView.

Traditionally, web applications have left a lot to be desired from a user experience standpoint, due primarily to the "request/response" lifecycle. Any interaction with a page typically requires a postback to the web server (a "request"), which then performs any server-side tasks needed and returns the updated page's markup (the "response"). Outside of intranet-based applications, such behavior adds a bit of a lag when interacting with a page. One approach to improving the end user's experience is to use AJAX. AJAX is a technique for using JavaScript and the XMLHttpRequest object to make light-weight HTTP requests back to the web server from client-side script. Once a response is received, the web page's layout can be seamlessly refreshed using JavaScript to message the page's Document Object Model (DOM) and CSS settings. AJAX-enabled pages provide a slick, responsive user experience, making web-based applications function more like desktop-based ones.

In the past adding AJAX type behaviors to your web application was difficult and came with a steep learning curve since AJAX encompasses a bevy of technologies (JavaScript, XML, XmlHttpObject, HTTP requests, DHTML, and so on). With the advent of the ASP.NET Atlas framework, however, there is much less of a reason to feel so overwhelmed when it comes to AJAX!

This month’s dual-purpose column provides a walkthrough of a JavaScript function to draw a Bezier curve on a Bing Maps AJAX map control along with guidelines for testing a nontrivial JavaScript function.

The whole point of AJAX is to make things faster, so why not include functionality that completes your users' thoughts as they type? In Atlas you can easily implement auto-completion functionality using the AutoCompleteExtender control.

This article describes how to implement a web-chat with ASP.NET and Ajax. In the first part I introduce the technologies I used for the application. Then I explain the concept of a chat and in the last part I present the main implementations. The goal of this article is to show the interested reader how to develop a chat without browser-plugins or java-applets, just pure HTML and JavaScript.

A collection of ExtractionRules, ValidationRules, and Request Plugin that makes ASP.NET and AJAX website testing painless. No need to record tests, write parameterized tests using server-side control names, handle UpdatePanels, simulate clicks on buttons - all from Web Test. Facilitates painless sop