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AJAX book recommendation wanted
Posted: 21 Mar 07 8:03 PM
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fiogf49gjkf0d Hope this ithe best forum for this posting.
I am looking for recommendations for a good AJAX book to get up to speed prior to 7.2
Thanks for any info.
Scott |
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Re: AJAX book recommendation wanted
Posted: 21 Mar 07 10:02 PM
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fiogf49gjkf0d I may get slammed for this, but in my opinion you should not waste a dime on an AJAX book. Microsoft as well as a number of other control vendors have encapsulated all the low level work for you. Just use the existing control suites.
http://ajax.asp.net/
It is so easy to make your projects AJAX enabled without writing a single line of client side code. Don't get sucked into that nightmare. Trust me.
Timmus |
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Re: AJAX book recommendation wanted
Posted: 21 Mar 07 10:20 PM
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fiogf49gjkf0d Hi Scott,
I don't really have a good book recommendation, however, a great place to start to get familiar with how the SLX 7.2 Web UI works is to play around with the Yahoo UI Library (YUI). See http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/ The YUI is used extensively in the SLX web client for a lot of the Ajax stuff you see going on in the UI. It really is an easy library to use and there are many examples on the YUI site, as well as some google searches will reveal other sites with some examples. Best thing is to download the YUI and start playing.
Now, all that said, you don't need to know how to use YUI to work with the SLX 7.2 client. You don't ever have to use it at all. YUI certainly isn't .NET specific and there are IMO easier libraries to work with, that not only look nicer, but are way easier to use with ASP.NET. You can really get by without ever knowing a thing about Ajax if you don't care to. There are a lot of great Ajax contol sets out there, and they will likely satisfy any Ajax needs you have. There's a lot of hype around Ajax, but just like any control, you don't need to start rolling your own by any means. There might be times when you need something a control cannot provide, but that will be a rare case and you can probably get most of the way there using the existing Ajax stuff around.
Another great place to start (I'd still recommend playing with the YUI as well) is http://ajax.asp.net/ - This is the Microsoft ASP.NET Ajax implementation (also referred to as Atlas), you'll find extensions, libraries, controls, etc.
Of course as you start to think about what to do, and how to use these sort of things once you start playing with 7.2, these forums are a great place to get good help 
-Ryan |
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Re: AJAX book recommendation wanted
Posted: 21 Mar 07 10:27 PM
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fiogf49gjkf0d  It's nice to get multiple opinions and I probably would not have chimed in after your eloquent post.
Timmus |
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Re: AJAX book recommendation wanted
Posted: 22 Mar 07 10:59 AM
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fiogf49gjkf0d Thanks for the responses. Will follow-up on the recommendations and see where the road leads.
Scott |
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