My Toolbox column in the November 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine is avaiable online. The November issue examines three products:
This month's issue reviewed Matt Gibbs and Dan Wahlin's Professional ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX. Here is an excerpt from the review:
Most AJAX-related books offer a rather exhaustive low-level look at the technologies involved. But that level of detail is unnecessary for a developer who wants to quickly get started building AJAX-enabled ASP.NET apps. These developers will find Matt Gibbs and Dan Wahlin's Professional ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX (Wrox Press, 2007) to be just what the doctor ordered. The book focuses on core AJAX concepts such as asynchronous postbacks, the browser's Document Object Model, and making HTTP requests via script—and each is explained in terms familiar to ASP.NET developers. Working with the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX library is also explored, as is using the UpdatePanel control, the ASP.NET client library, ScriptManager, and the controls in the AJAX Toolkit.
As always, if you have any suggestions for products or books to review for the Toolbox column, please send them into toolsmm@microsoft.com.