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This book is not for people who have no experience with ASP.NET. Rather, if you are a seasoned pro at building Postback-style ASP.NET applications but you want to make your apps more interactive, more responsive, and overall bring them up to par with the rest of the web – this is the book for you.

This book provides clear, concise explanations for what Ajax is and how it is implemented and made available for developers within ASP.NET 3.5. When you’re done reading this book you will be able to do more than just make some pieces of your page refresh without postback, you’ll be able to fully consume JSON services, dynamically re-render pieces of your page on the fly, implement client-side paging, querying, updating – and much more.

The bottom line is if you build commercial-quality ASP.NET applications and you want them to be clean, crisp, highly responsive, and up-to-date, you need this book.
Rating: 5 / 5

I admittedly haven’t spent a ton of time with AJAX. Rob does a great job of introducing AJAX to someone who doesn’t have a lot of experience with it in a very easy to consume way. Using this resource I was able to quickly AJAX-ify one of my SharePoint Web Parts in under 30m that contained a lot of complexity. This is a fantastic learning tool and ongoing resource!
Rating: 5 / 5