Recently, Microsoft ASP.NET Ajax 1.0 has attracted more and
more developers’ attention. Why? Because it’s an Ajax-based solution from
Microsoft for ASP.NET 2.0 web development! It came to the AJAX stage late in
the game, but it brought with it an integral package of new Ajax-based web
development technologies that integrate an extensive set of client script
libraries with the rich, server-based development platform of ASP.NET 2.0! In
this series, I will try to dissect the key techniques in the data binding
architecture inside Microsoft ASP.NET Ajax 1.0 Framework. In part 1, we will
mainly explore the data binding architecture from the point of view of theory,
while in part 2, we'll build two distinct samples (the data sources coming from
web services and a SQL Server 2005 database, respectively) to study the practical
application of the data binding techniques.