Thanks to Microsoft we can easily access a web service from inside an ASP.NET 2.0 framework. So, we can first invoke web services in the methods inside an ASP.NET 2.0 page and in turn call these methods via the open-source Ajax framework—AjaxPro.NET. Figure 2 gives you a more illustrative explanation.

Figure 2: Call Web Services via AjaxPro.NET framework

Now, let us take a further look at the famous framework.