An AJAX.NET question.
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Hiya there. Ive just been doing some reading on this opensource ajax project available from here: http://www.ajaxpro.info/[^] It looks to be perfect for ajax-ing up a webpage, however as i am a newbie to all this i thought i would ask you guys if this is something that i should be looking into. I know that Microsoft now provides an Ajax library too, and there are other projects available aswell. I am looking for something that gives lightweight generic ajax callback functionality which is why the ajax.net project looks good. What are peoples opinions on the different libraries out there?
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Hiya there. Ive just been doing some reading on this opensource ajax project available from here: http://www.ajaxpro.info/[^] It looks to be perfect for ajax-ing up a webpage, however as i am a newbie to all this i thought i would ask you guys if this is something that i should be looking into. I know that Microsoft now provides an Ajax library too, and there are other projects available aswell. I am looking for something that gives lightweight generic ajax callback functionality which is why the ajax.net project looks good. What are peoples opinions on the different libraries out there?
I've used Ajax Pro before, and found it to be quite reasonable. Certainly, it is simpler to get your head round than Atlas/Ajax, but the sheer weight of the MS machine means that more and more features/capabilities are being added, which makes it a better bet for the long term. Don't get me wrong, what Michael has done is fantastic - plus, it targets .NET1.1 as well, but it makes more sense for us to bet the company on MS than on a "one man band".
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Hiya there. Ive just been doing some reading on this opensource ajax project available from here: http://www.ajaxpro.info/[^] It looks to be perfect for ajax-ing up a webpage, however as i am a newbie to all this i thought i would ask you guys if this is something that i should be looking into. I know that Microsoft now provides an Ajax library too, and there are other projects available aswell. I am looking for something that gives lightweight generic ajax callback functionality which is why the ajax.net project looks good. What are peoples opinions on the different libraries out there?
I use jQuery's AJAX stuff because it's convenient, but that's about it. Frankly, you want a wrapper around
XMLHttpRequestbecause it has such an ugly interface, but you can easily write your own, prettier, wrapper in an hour if need be. Hence the existence of aprox. 6 billion AJAX wrappers. The MS stuff is nice in so far as it generates wrappers automatically for calling server methods. If they'd stopped there, i'd have been pretty happy with it. Instead, they went the "Framework" route and wrapped everything else. It's like writing an MFC wrapper for the BCL so you can call it from C++/CLR... :doh:----
...the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more...
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I use jQuery's AJAX stuff because it's convenient, but that's about it. Frankly, you want a wrapper around
XMLHttpRequestbecause it has such an ugly interface, but you can easily write your own, prettier, wrapper in an hour if need be. Hence the existence of aprox. 6 billion AJAX wrappers. The MS stuff is nice in so far as it generates wrappers automatically for calling server methods. If they'd stopped there, i'd have been pretty happy with it. Instead, they went the "Framework" route and wrapped everything else. It's like writing an MFC wrapper for the BCL so you can call it from C++/CLR... :doh:----
...the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more...
Shog9 wrote:
aprox. 6 billion AJAX wrappers.
I never published mine, so there's approx. 6 billion - 1 AJAX wrappers. We don't want to spread inaccurate information now, do we? ;)
-- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit
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I use jQuery's AJAX stuff because it's convenient, but that's about it. Frankly, you want a wrapper around
XMLHttpRequestbecause it has such an ugly interface, but you can easily write your own, prettier, wrapper in an hour if need be. Hence the existence of aprox. 6 billion AJAX wrappers. The MS stuff is nice in so far as it generates wrappers automatically for calling server methods. If they'd stopped there, i'd have been pretty happy with it. Instead, they went the "Framework" route and wrapped everything else. It's like writing an MFC wrapper for the BCL so you can call it from C++/CLR... :doh:----
...the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more...
Is that including or excluding the wrappers for AJAX wrappers?
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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I use jQuery's AJAX stuff because it's convenient, but that's about it. Frankly, you want a wrapper around
XMLHttpRequestbecause it has such an ugly interface, but you can easily write your own, prettier, wrapper in an hour if need be. Hence the existence of aprox. 6 billion AJAX wrappers. The MS stuff is nice in so far as it generates wrappers automatically for calling server methods. If they'd stopped there, i'd have been pretty happy with it. Instead, they went the "Framework" route and wrapped everything else. It's like writing an MFC wrapper for the BCL so you can call it from C++/CLR... :doh:----
...the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more...
i don't use a wrapper; i prefer the sensation of direct contact with XMLHttpRequest and find that wrappers diminish my coding pleasure.
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Is that including or excluding the wrappers for AJAX wrappers?
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Ajax comes in bottles or tins (if it's powder), not wrappers!
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i don't use a wrapper; i prefer the sensation of direct contact with XMLHttpRequest and find that wrappers diminish my coding pleasure.
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