In this chapter, you'll learn:
How to add richer interaction to pages using JavaScript and jQuery.
This MSDN Magazine article provides an introduction to using jQuery to enhance web pages.
This article reviews the fundamental task of selecting elements using jQuery selectors so that you can perform operations on the selected elements.
This MSDN Flash article provides an overview of how to separate structure and content by using unobstrusive JavaScript and jQuery.
This article discusses JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), an open, text-based data exchange format that provides a standardized data exchange format for Ajax-style web applications.
This blog post reviews how IntelliSense for JavaScript has been implemented in Visual Studio 2010.
This article explores the Microsoft Ajax Content Delivery Network (CDN) that hosts popular third-party JavaScript libraries like jQuery and that lets you easily add them to your web applications.
This article explains how to use Ajax features to enhance server-based ASP.NET Web Forms applications by using ASP.NET controls like the UpdatePanel control.
This article introduces the Ajax Control Toolkit that you can use to build highly responsive and interactive ASP.NET Web Forms applications.