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I'm working on a first demonstration site for Ajax.NET Professional. Maybe you can help me to decide which examples you want to see: AutoComplete, Banners, HtmlUpdater, FormUpdater, ...

Ajax.NET Professional will allow you to use your objects as return values and as arguments without the need to write a IAjaxObjectConverter:

public interface IPerson
{
   string FirstName{get;set;}
}

public class Person : IPerson
{
   private string firstName;
   public string FamilyName;
   public int Age = 0;
   public double Depot = 0.0;

   public Person()
   {
      // must have this constructor !!
   }

   public Person(string firstName, string familyName)
   {
      this.firstName = firstName;
      this.FamilyName = familyName;
   }

   #region IPerson Members

   public string FirstName
   {
      get
      {
         return this.firstName;
      }
      set
      {
         this.firstName = value;
      }
   }

}

 public class Boss : Person
{
   public string CompanyName;

   public Boss() : base()
   {
       // must have this constructor !!
   }

   public Boss(string firstName, string familyName, string companyName) : base(firstName, familyName)
   {
       this.CompanyName = companyName;
   }

}

Now, we want to have a look at the Ajax.NET Professional method. The first method will return a IPerson object from a database. The second on will get this IPerson object from the client-side JavaScript to check if it is a Boss object.

[Ajax.AjaxMethod]
public IPerson GetPersonFromID(int id)
{
    if(id == 1)
    {
        Person p = new Person();
        p.FirstName = "Michael";
        p.FamilyName = "Schwarz";

        return p;
    }
    else
    {
        Boss b = new Boss();
        b.FirstName = "Hans";
        b.FamilyName = "Mustermann";
        b.CompanyName = "Your Company";

        return b;
    }
}

[Ajax.AjaxMethod]
public bool IsBoss(IPerson p)
{
    return p is Boss;
}

[Ajax.AjaxMethod]
public IPerson RefreshPersonObject(IPerson p)
{
    p.FirstName = "Refreshed FirstName...";

    return p;
}