With Programming ASP.NET AJAX, you'll learn how to create professional, dynamic web pages with Ajax in no time. Loaded with code and examples that demonstrate key aspects of the framework, this book is ideal not only for ASP.NET developers who want to take their applications a step further with Ajax, but also used for web developers interested in ASP.NET AJAX, no matter what technology they currently use. That includes JavaScript programmers who want to avoid headaches to write cross-browser code. Programming ASP.NET AJAX offers you: A high level overview ASP.NET AJAX framework Functional code that you can cut and paste for your own use in critical applications of JavaScript and Ajax to help you understand individual technologies used by the framework An organization that reflects the framework package, including extensions, Control Toolkit, Futures CTP, and the AJAX Library Sidebars throughout the book that identify and propose solutions to potential security breaches way to use a standards-based AJAX Library with other platforms, such as PHP A complete chapter UpdatePanel control to make each part of a web page independently updateable - one of the most important framework elements Released previously as Programming Atlas to cover the beta version of the Microsoft framework, this edition is fully up-to-date and expanded for the official 1.0 release of ASP.NET AJAX.