AJAX has been peaking my interest lately. Between GMail, Google Earth and the new MSN Virtual Earth... I figured it was time to look into XmlHttpRequest. After a bit of reading I was starting to get really excited at what I could do. Then I ran into Ajax.NET. Awesome... though it's in the very early stages, it could definitely be something I add to our organizations library assembly.
The next day, I decided to watch a webcast (300k) with our new developer on the staff. Mark has got a lot of experience but knows little to nothing about the upcoming toolset. I figured we could watch this together... nothing new for me (or so I thought), but we could discuss it's impact after it was over.
Well, it never finished. I was so blown away by the fact that Scott Guthrie mentioned Javascript callbacks. Whaa??? In ASP.NET 2.0 apparently each control will support a callback without a full-page roundtrip. Built-in. OMG?! This sounded suspiciously like XmlHttpRequest! If any one else has any further info to add - I'm all ears.
Just think - the power for a GridView to handle paging and sorting without a roundtrip to the server!!
posted @ Saturday, May 28, 2005 3:24 PM