Mark Phillips said
This book provides the best general coverage for ASP.NET Ajax that I have found. It is easy to read and the content is thorough.
D. E. Karasek said
The book is an excellent book because it really describes what exactly happens in the ASP and AJAX post back process, and details the application interface models. It also contains an excellent tutorial for working with Javascript in the context of the Microsoft AJAX implementation with ScriptManager.
While there is a book web site with some updates, I feel that an updated book would be helpful that includes information about working with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and JSON. Perhaps this is already in the works.
maddog said
I thought this was a nice book till I got to ch 5. It seems that the quality of the whole book goes downhill at this point. In ch 5 I found the sample code wouldnt run. After spending too much time trying to fix it, I went to the author forum and asked for help. Within a few days, one of the authors posted a revised version of the code with updated connection data. Well this code could now connect but it had a slew of new errors. All in all I spent over a day trying to get this sample app work!. When I buy a programming textbook, I expect that code toworking. Being an experienced programmer I can fix typos and small errors, though I shouldnt have to - but difficult errors coupled with the fact that I dont yet properly understand the material just make matters confusing and discouraging. Code problems aside, the book seems to become rather breezy and slapdash from ch 5 on.
There is useful material in this book and it has some value but, overall, its a disappointment
Nabin Nepal said
This is an excellent book. It explains the intricate details of an [..] Ajax web application. The general misconception about [...] AJAX with most people is the extensive use of UpdatePanels but they never try to uncover the details. This book covers these in a very descriptive way.
Excellent read indeed.
C. Jones said
I really enjoyed this book. Not only does it explain things thoroughly but the author also gives very intelligent, practical examples to help flesh out the theory. It's really good.
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