MSDN Magazine – Cutting Edge: “AJAX Application Architecture, Part 1 & 2”
Cutting Edge: AJAX Application Architecture, Part 1 — MSDN Magazine, September 2007:
AJAX to the Rescue
The AJAX Architecture
What’s an AJAX Framework?
ASP.NET AJAX Extensions
A Look at Partial Rendering
Anatomy of an AJAX Postback
Optimization Techniques for Partial Rendering
Weighing Partial Rendering
Cutting Edge: AJAX Application Architecture, Part 2 — MSDN Magazine, October 2007:
Logging In with AJAX
Flavors of Services
What Do AJAX Services Return?
JSON Versus XML
Security Concerns
Services in ASP.NET AJAX
ASP.NET AJAX Services and SOAP
Invoking AJAX Services
Building the User Interface
What It All Means