ASP.NET Ajax Framework

Question

Is there an ASP.NET AJAX framework other than just using UpdatePanel & Friends or the ASP.NET AjaxControlToolkit?

Currently I am using plain ICallbackEventHandler calls but it gets quite complicated a while as a lot of serialization needs to be done.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

There are tons of Ajax Frameworks for ASP.NET. Some of them are; Anthem.NET, Ra-Ajax (my project), Gaia Ajax, AjaxPro.NET and probably hundreds of others. My personal favorite (shameless plug) is obvously Ra-Ajax since that's what I am working with. (founder of)

Have a look at Ajax Calendar Starter-Kit to see its capabilities...

Answer 2

Infragistics is popular, but gets wonky when you actually have to debug a problems.

Answer 3

After some trial and error I have found out that the best way (for me) for handling Ajax in an ASP.NET Web forms application.

• ASP.NET AJAX Script services for all AJAX calls. Returns JSON for complex types
• jQuery for the GUI and for the Effects.

Works really nice, and I am in full control of the output.

Answer 4

Here is a list of different AJAX frameworks to use with ASP.NET.

We also used prototype for smaller tasks.

Answer 5

The new ASP.NET MVC Framework (beta)?

Answer 6

Telerik has a nice library of AJAX controls.