Beginning Ajax

Ajax has the power to revolutionize the way web-based applications are designed. This book provides you with a thorough working knowledge of what Ajax has to offer and how to take full advantage of it in your application development. Following an exploration of how Ajax works with .NET, you'll get acquainted with DHTML, the role of JavaScript and the Document Object Model, and the XMLHttpRequest Object, which is the foundation of Ajax. Then you will examine the Ajax-type features built into ASP.NET and explore the Ajax.NET Professional Library in detail. Finally, you will explore client scripting as well as building and using controls with Microsoft's Atlas. With an entire chapter devoted to debugging, you will have all you need to use this cutting-edge technology. What you will learn from this book * What you can do with the open source Ajax.NET Professional Library * How to use the corresponding functionality, Asynchronous Client Script Callbacks, that comes with ASP.NET 2.0 * Techniques for using the XMLHttpRequest Object to communicate between the client web browser and the server * An overview of XML, XSLT, and other ways to send data between client and server * How to integrate Microsoft's Atlas with many of the services available in ASP.NET 2.0 Who this book is for This book is for programmers who use ASP.NET and are just starting to use Ajax technologies to create more responsive, modern applications. Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

This is the first book to show how PHP and Javascript technologies can work together to create next generation applications. Covering many of the most commonplace topics developers encounter in daily web application development tasks, The author guides readers through topics like enhanced forms validation, data display and manipulation, JavaScript debugging, and security considerations. The result is a book that not only discusses how two of the world's most talked about technologies can come together to create amazing applications, but is also based upon a real-world context, enabling developers to immediately begin applying what they've learned to their own situation.

Using proven examples and explaining concepts step by step, this book shows you how building Ajax-enabled sites and applications allows more interactive user interfaces than ever before. You’ll learn about the differences in capabilities between client-side and server-side development techniques, as well as how Ajax crosses this boundary. You’ll also discover how Ajax techniques can be summed up by patterns (which are development models that you’ll use repeatedly). With a mastery of these techniques, you’ll be able to breathe new life into your Web sites.

By leveraging a number of existing and popular technologies, Ajax allows Web applications to make quick updates to the user interface without reloading the entire browser page. It is an ideal resource for developers who want to get started with Ajax-oriented Web developments using current technologies, in particular, Atlas.

Written by a high-power team of Microsoft MVPs, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the ASP.NET AJAX features After a quick overview of the architecture and features of ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX, coverage then goes on to show developers how to build richer, more responsive dynamic Web sites and Web applications Dives into such topics as ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX user interface design issues, JavaScript enhancements with AJAX, how to use the UpdatePanel for implementing server-side controls, and XML scripting in AJAX Also offers an outline of the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAXControl Toolkit, and discusses implementing drag and drop functions, databinding, debugging and security, ASP.NET services, and bridging and gadgets The companion Web site provides readers with a rich set of code examples

This is the most up-to-date book on JavaScript available, covering current standards, techniques, and practices. It provides all you need to know to hit the ground running, without making you trawl through hundreds of pages of syntax. The book contains multiple chapters on Ajax and DOM Scripting, which are two of the hottest web development and design tools available today. Using a pragmatic and thorough approach, the book ensures that even the most novice JavaScript programmers will become familiar and comfortable using the tools presented.

A visual approach to Ajax, this text contains step-by-step screen shots that demonstrate over 150 key Ajax techniques, including how to download data from behind the scenes, enabling real-time live searches, populating pop-up menus, handling menus, colours and backgrounds, and more.

The Google Maps API remains one of the showcase examples of the Web 2.0 development paradigm. In fact, interest in the Google service is so strong that it arguably sparked the mashup phenomenon. This is the first book to comprehensively introduce the service from a developer perspective, showing readers how they can integrate mapping features into their Web applications. Proceeding far beyond creating a simplistic map display, readers are shown how to draw upon a variety of data sources such as geocode.us and the U.S. Census Bureau’s TIGER/Line data to build comprehensive geocoding services for mapping any location in North America.