Using ASP.NET for AJAX in SharePoint Sites: Tread Gently for Now

posted by  kevyn (54)  12 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

We get asked about what we're doing about AJAX quite a lot these days, especially about ASP.NET for AJAX (the technology formerly known as "Atlas"). We *love* AJAX. We actually use AJAX (albeit not ASP.NET for AJAX) all over the place in SharePoint sites. Dropdown menus when clicking on Edit Control Buttom (ECB) menus? AJAX. The Settings menu on a site's home page? AJAX.

As for ASP.NET for AJAX, we love it (we're ASP.NET developers ourselves – how could we not? J), we're excited to see Beta 2 emerge, but given that we started working on