my grandma, what # teeth you’ve got

OK, first article..

http://ajax.asp.net/

This should be your first port of call on the way to adding ASP.NET AJAX to your existing ASP.NET sites. I’m pretty sold on ASP.NET AJAX (though not the name… Atlas was nicer) for several reasons: -

1. The UpdatePanel - AJAX your page in 3 seconds flat
2. The open-source control library – some very nice controls in the first release, more on the way
3. The Javascript extensions – not played too much with this except calling a webservice from JS - looks very powerful, most definitely worth further investigation
4. Writing your own controls
5. It’s going to be part of ASP.NET 3.0 – which means MS are serious about it
6. ScottGu’s blog and the rest of the community – http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/ - check it out

I’ll be writing more in-depth .NET AJAX articles in the very near future, but this should give you something to get started with if you haven’t already.

 Oh, and welcome to my blog !