Over the holidays I wrote a end-to-end hands-on-lab for ASP.NET AJAX, that allows developers to quickly familiarize with the technology. The lab consists of a simple e-commerce site, that will be extended with the ASP.NET AJAX framework (release candidate) to demonstrate most of the capabilities of the ASP.NET AJAX framework.
The labs have been a big success with 140 attendees in Zurich and I am now happy to share my lab material for everyone to try this at home...
Note however, that the lab manual is only available in German and in French right now.
Abstract:
ASP.NET AJAX half-day tutorial.
With ASP.NET AJAX, developers can efficiently design websites with compelling, interactive user interfaces and efficient, asynchronous client-server communication by simply adding a few new server-side ASP.NET controls. This AJAX-Framework by Microsoft furthermore extends the ASP.NET 2.0 developer framework with browser independent client-script libraries. ASP.NET AJAX offers developers building web-solutions a development process and a programming model that they are used from developing server-side ASP.NET solutions. Being fully integrated into the ASP.NET framework, ASP.NET AJAX can benefit from the ASP.NET 2.0 application services, web services as well as the entire .NET Framework.
This half-day tutorial introduces you to the ASP.NET AJAX framework and gives you the chance to extend an ASP.NET 2.0 based e-commerce solution with ASP.NET AJAX.
The tutorial offers you a comprehensive picture of the ASP.NET AJAX framework. Server-side ASP.NET AJAX extensions are used as well as the client-side ASP.NET AJAX libraries. Furthermore, attendees will learn how to use the ASP.NET AJAX control toolkit to write their own, new server-side ASP.NET AJAX controls, which can then be reused by every ASP.NET developer.
Prerequisite for the hands-on tutorial is a laptop with the following software:
The installation of ASP.NET AJAX is part of the tutorial.
