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Reputation: 15085

What are the advantages of using MS AJAX versus jQuery?

The client has a .NET framework and utilizes MS AJAX. Is this advantageous over jQuery as a library? I imagine since it is MS they would charge you more for extra functionality in case you wanted something more custom or is that incorrect?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 320

Answers (3)

Andrey
Andrey

Reputation: 21275

MS AJAX vs. jQuery

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Ease of Use vs. Flexibility/Performance

MS AJAX allows you to quickly build ajax-enabled asp.net sites without requiring much knowledge of javascript - it emulates server-side framework; but that comes with a performance hit compared to jQuery.

Above is not the only difference, but the main one IMHO (I'm developing high-load sites, so performance makes all the difference for me)

Upvotes: 0

Chris B. Behrens
Chris B. Behrens

Reputation: 6297

No charge for MS Ajax. But at this point, JQuery is essentially MS Ajax, at least, in the sense that MS is fully behind it, as opposed to MS having control over it.

If you're referring to stuff like the UpdatePanel, then you get a small degree of productivity with a cost of transparency, in my opinion. There's nothing you can do with that stuff you can't do with JQuery, so my inclination is to just study JQuery. See Maxym's post above as well.

Upvotes: 1

Maxym
Maxym

Reputation: 11896

I would stay with jQuery:

  • very powerful
  • community-driven
  • quite good optimized for all major browsers
  • a lot of plugins available
  • has big active community (with John Resig as a head :)

maybe MS Ajax has some advantage if you use it together with .NET framework, but I'm not sure, since this is client side framework, so it should be independent.

Upvotes: 2

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