As you can read on the Microsoft Product Feedback Center the idea of adding AJAX support to Whidbey is to late. But Microsoft will think about it:

Thank you for your suggestion. AJAX is defininitely gaining attention and is something that the team has given thought to. Considering where we are in the product cycle, I hope you'll understand that it wouldn't be possible to do this in Whidbey but we'll evaluate the suggestion for a future release. We'll update the status of this bug further after we've finished triaging it.

Rich Ersek
The Web Platform & Tools Team

Please vote at the web site for AJAX support in Whidbey! You can download the free Ajax.NET Library at: http://ajax.schwarz-interactive.de/.

11 Comments

• Julien Couvreur said Wednesday, June 8, 2005 8:54:00 PM

  Doesn't ASP.Net 2.0 add support for Client Callbacks? It is a step in the right direction, although it's not enough for writing a BackPack or Gmail in a couple of clicks yet.
  From what I understand, it is meant to be wrapped inside the webcontrol abstraction, rather than used at a lower level like your Ajax.Net.

• Cold Chilli said Thursday, June 9, 2005 10:06:00 PM

  Take a look at dot Net Nuke support for Client Callbacks

• Balaji K said Friday, June 10, 2005 7:04:00 PM

  Ok thanks Michael. I'll try to follow your blog and the website. Do post the links to the online articles when they get published. Thanks.

• OmegaSupreme said Friday, June 10, 2005 10:08:00 PM

  Keep up the good work. Nevermind if MicroSoft dont do it your stuff is great, dont think they would do it better.

• John said Sunday, June 12, 2005 1:37:00 AM

  Will Ajax.NET ever be open-source? If not, why not? Do you intend to sell it at some point?
  
  

• Michael Schwarz said Sunday, June 12, 2005 8:50:00 PM

  @John: I will sell the source code to one company, I am discussing with some developers...

• Charles Feduke said Monday, June 13, 2005 5:04:00 PM

  Ug... if only ViewState wasn't so... well... retarded. If an Ajax method could use the return type WebControl like it supports HtmlControl it would be ideal. It looks like only ViewState is standing in the way here. D'oh!

• Michael Schwarz said Tuesday, June 14, 2005 5:39:00 AM

  @Frank: I the past I build an application for Pocket PCs (known as WIS Bar). I have developed this for about 1-2 years. After this period I stopped working on it because I did not have enough time. Because I had a lot of downloads (top 10 at pocketgear) I decided to make the source code available to all. Currently I am still searching for a place where I can put the source code to make it an open source project.

• Anders M said Saturday, June 18, 2005 5:47:00 PM

  Does the ajax.net library work 100% in asp.net ?
  
  Do you plan to implement it ? :-)

• Anders M said Sunday, June 19, 2005 8:12:00 AM

  Forget my stupid question, it works :-)

• SorinS said Friday, June 24, 2005 8:05:00 AM

  So please state : Under what kind of licence is this to be released ? Can it or can't it be used in commercial applications.