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The foundation for most Web services, XML can also be used with ASP.NET to display data from an infinite variety of sources in a Web site After covering the basics, the book explores the many ways that XML documents can be created, transformed, and transmitted to other systems using ASP.NET 2.0 Two major case studies address issues such as reading and writing XML data,XML data validation, transforming XML Data with XSLT, SQL Server XML integration, XML support in ADO.NET, and XML Web Services.

Since the emergence of Google Maps 12 months ago, Ajax programming techniques have become one of the hottest topics in the programming arena. To date, the frameworks available for creating these applications have been complex and have separated the development of the client–side Ajax (on the user’s machine) from the server–side supporting technology (on the company’s machines).

This separation has made development slow and difficult. ASP.NET AJAX is Microsoft’s solution to this problem. ASP.NET AJAX (formerly code–named Atlas) is a set of

Chapter 1, ASP.NET AJAX, Ajax, and ASP.NET, gives a broad overview of Ajax and the ASP.NET AJAX framework and then covers the installation of ASP.NET AJAX, a review of its structure, and a first simple example.
Chapter 2, JavaScript, is a concise introduction to JavaScript. Although ASP.NET AJAX does its best to hide the functional details from ASP.NET programmers, a certain knowledge of JavaScript is required to really master ASP.NET AJAX.
Chapter 3, Ajax, explains the technologies beyond the hype. You learn what happens in the background, how Ajax works,

This guide is for experienced programmers and developers who are looking to make the transition to ASP.NET 2.0.

This new special edition contains more than 50 new server controls; the number of classes inside ASP.NET 2.0 has more than doubled, and in many cases and much more. It will alert you to every new feature and capability that ASP.NET 2.0 provides so that you'll be prepared to put these new technologies into action. Hundreds of pages of new coverage of advanced and new

Chapter 1, Introducing Web Portals and Dropthings.com
Introduces you to the attributes of a web portal and to the applications that you will learn to build throughout the book. Chapter 1 also shows you how ASP.NET AJAX and .NET 3.5 are used in the product.
Chapter 2, Architecting the Web Portal and Widgets
Gives you an architectural overview of Dropthings.com. It also explains the widget architecture and how to build highly decoupled web applications using widgets. It touches on some performance and security challenges of Ajax web sites.
Chapter 3, Building the Web Layer Using ASP.NET AJAX