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Homer
Homer

Reputation: 7826

Is the ASP.NET Ajax Library dead?

I've recently stumbled across a few blogs that say the ASP.NET Ajax Library is dead, in particular:

Is this generally true, technically and practically?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 2377

Answers (4)

Zuuum
Zuuum

Reputation: 1485

Scalable comet ajax is more popular now. Try the samples of PokeIn library.

Upvotes: 2

Michael Stum
Michael Stum

Reputation: 180964

Yes, it is. Even for SharePoint developers (which uses ASP.net AJAX heavily) it's out of favor.

However, the SERVER SIDE ASP.net AJAX (UpdatePanel etc.) are alive and kicking. They have some shortcomings (UpdatePanel can send tons of viewstate back and forth).

But the Client Side Framework and ASP.net AJAX Library is dead.

Upvotes: 3

Lorenzo
Lorenzo

Reputation: 29427

A technology can't die if it's customer base is so big!

Upvotes: 0

Lou Franco
Lou Franco

Reputation: 89192

I've been to Microsoft talks on jQuery, and basically it sounded to me like they expected everyone to use jQuery for client-side-only DOM manipulation and ASP.NET Ajax was still used for it's Ajax components (like UpdatePanel) and as a basis for AJAX into .NET services made with WCF or just back to ASHX or other server code.

From being a component developer that targets ASP.NET, I can tell you that it's very much used by our customers, and we need to support it.

Upvotes: 4

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