In this chapter, you'll learn:
About the ASP.NET AJAX library, including UpdatePanels and partial page updates, authentication, localization, and debugging.
By Scott Cate|March 28, 2008
Perhaps the most visible feature of the ASP.NET AJAX Extensions is the ability to do a partial or incremental page updates without doing a full postback to the server, with no code changes and mini...
By Scott Cate|March 12, 2008
When working in the markup editor in Visual Studio, you may notice (from IntelliSense) that there are two child elements of an UpdatePanel control. One of which is the Triggers element, which speci...
By Scott Cate|March 14, 2008
The Authentication service allows users to provide credentials in order to receive an authentication cookie, and is the gateway service to allow custom user profiles provided by ASP.NET. Use of the...
By Scott Cate|March 14, 2008
Localization is the process of designing and integrating support for a specific language and culture into an application or an application component. The Microsoft ASP.NET platform provides extensi...
By Scott Cate|March 28, 2008
Web Services are an integral part of the .NET framework that provide a cross-platform solution for exchanging data between distributed systems. Although Web Services are normally used to allow diff...
By Scott Cate|March 28, 2008
The ability to debug code is a skill that every developer should have in their arsenal regardless of the technology they're using. While many developers are accustomed to using Visual Studio .NET o...