In this article I'm going to outline how you can use JQuery to provide a lightweight AJAX solution for .NET. JQuery's AJAX has several advantages over .NET's AJAX.
If you were including JQuery on your site anyway then the only overhead is from the AJAX .NET plugin and the required JSON file. This totals roughly 6kb so it is a
lightweight solution - far smaller than .NET's AJAX. We can write using JQuery's fantastically easy to use syntax so that we can write slicker behaviours far easier
that we ever could before. This ease of use is great news for usability.
The code in this article is very similar to the example code that comes with the AJAX .NET plugin, however, I found that code did not work when I tried to replicate it in my own solution.
This provided the motivation for a simple step-by-step tutorial.