Jim Wang (one of the great QA people on the Ajax team) just started a blog, and his first post is a very detailed walk through building a data-driven application from scratch using ADO.NET Data Services and the new client templates in ASP.NET Ajax 4.0 . http://weblogs.asp.net/jimwang/archive/2008/11...

Wally McClure, MVP extraordinaire and ASP Insider, just published a short book about the new features in ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 . It is a short and to the point read that should get you started in no time. I wouldn’t have shown web service access as the main advantage of jQuery myself (the selector and animation...

Excellent way for retrieving data using ajax and the new ADO.Net Data Services. Data can be retrieved using JavaScript calls asynchronously making use of the success and failure methods. http://www.asp.net/learn/3.5- SP1/video-239.aspx The expand keyword allows you to control if all objects are returned...

The Microsoft Ajax team made the fourth preview of the 4.0 version available on CodePlex . This is an important release because it enables the full client data story, complete with the ability to get changes back to the server automatically. Here’s a quick recap of some of the available features: Getting...

Stephen Walther just published links to the video, slides and sample code for his Ajax talk at MIX09: http://stephenwalther.com/blog/archive/2009/03/22/mix-slides-code-and-session-recording.aspx It’s pretty cool to see all the work we put into Ajax this past year or so presented at MIX. This is a really...

Stephen Walther just published links to the video, slides and sample code for his Ajax talk at MIX09: http://stephenwalther.com/blog/archive/2009/03/22/mix-slides-code-and-session-recording.aspx It’s pretty cool to see all the work we put into Ajax this past year or so presented at MIX. This is a really...

The Microsoft Ajax team made the fourth preview of the 4.0 version available on CodePlex . This is an important release because it enables the full client data story, complete with the ability to get changes back to the server automatically. Here’s a quick recap of some of the available features: Getting...

Stephen Walther just published links to the video, slides and sample code for his Ajax talk at MIX09: http://stephenwalther.com/blog/archive/2009/03/22/mix-slides-code-and-session-recording.aspx It’s pretty cool to see all the work we put into Ajax this past year or so presented at MIX. This is a really...