Ajax Introduction Page

Since this is the first ajax page created in this wiki, I will introduce how to install Ajax to work with your visual studio 2005. And here is the showcase video which will decide you should read on. If that doesn't get you interested , don't bother then :p

What is Ajax?
Ajax(Asynchronous JavaScript And XML)Someone may have heard of Ajax as kind of better of Javascript. Well, to my point of view, it's right and wrong. It does utilize Javascript as the underlying mechanisms , but if offers so much more: what makes it outstanding is the power of doing the server side quickie e.g. on your datagrid, click on the view details button and popup dialog box , not annoying popup browser windows which will be blocked by most of the modern browsers (you can decide it's modal or not) . All the details pulled out of the DB can be extracted on server and displayed on page with no postback overhead! And more importantly, it's easy (breezingly easy) to incorporate Ajax into your site, so... why not?!

2. How to install Ajax to your VS2005

N.B. Please uninstall any beta version of Ajax before doing so, then install following in order

• get ASP Ajax 1.0 from MS


• get ASP Ajax Control Toolkit and make sure you download the full version so you can play around with the source

If you want to learn more about Ajax new features that will appear in future version of Ajax , which can be downloaded here

Please note that all these tools can also be found in the software installer section on the left hand side of the site. If you are still not sure, you can watch the installation video

3. Use Ajax

Many of the video footages I give on top of the page are self-explanatory, and very easy to implement. Basically after you download and install the ajax 1.0 and toolkit you will have template to create Ajax enalbed site which is optional, since you can still choose from the ajax extension tool box to drop on your page. There are sample sites for demo purposes as well for you to play and get excited.



I don't know what you guys think, I was blown away when I first saw the powerful features provided by ajax.

originally posted 20/02/2007 14:13 (old post)