Ramble

Presented by: Greg Huber

This was another pretty lame talk.  It was MS specific, of course.  The AJAX library is neat and the demos helped me better understand how it works and hence how to develop it.  That may come in handy with the Rich Media Converter Project upgrade and for that, it was worth paying attention to.

It was a decent introduction to the library and how it works.  The most interesting point was how you can divide implementation of the library into server-centric and client-centric implementations.

Server-centric uses server controls and lets you pretty easily AJAXify exisiting ASP.NET pages or create AJAX pages without knowing JavaScript, just using server controls.  That’s pretty cool.

The client-centric approach lets you build your own JavaScript, for those familiar with such things, and is a bit more bandwidth efficient.  The demo used a Web service to show how this can be done.  That was also pretty neat in itself and I wish we could have talked more about that.

Overall, worth the visit, but, as usual, I’d prefer to use a non-proprietary approach.