Asp.Net AJAX

[~J~]

Right, got my first project to investigate this week where the requirements involved drag-n-drop routines on a webpage.

I've NEVER attempted anything like this in a webapp and understand the way to go is Ajax.

BUT it's all new to me.

Anyone recommend some good tutorial sites for learning a few simple Ajax techniques.

 

[growse]

If you want to do drag/drop, I've always found Scriptaculous to be good.

 

[cjmUK]

http://www.asp.net/AJAX/ - for the MS offering (I use it, it's decent)

There are *many* others, including Yahoo User Interface Library (YUI), Dojo, and the Googel Web Toolkit (GWT), to name but a few.

Plenty of tutorials available for each, so play around a bit.

 

[~J~]

Cheers folks, much appreciated.

 

[Augmented]

Drag and drop isn't part of, or related to AJAX. AJAX is used for aynchronous communication between client and server. Drag and drop is simply javascript functionality, and all of the JS libraries mentioned (jQuery, Mootools, YUI etc) have prebuilt functions for draggable, droppables and sortables [sortables are drag and drop with reordering, like Google homepage].

You might use AJAX to compliment your drag and drop. For example, when you drop an item you might make an AJAX call to the server to store the position of the dropped item.

Try and avoid the Asp.Net AJAX, if you can. It's not particular nice to work with from a front-ender's perspective, and pretty bulky in its codebase.