Finally: good advice from MS on how to build your AJAX pages

Published Sat, Dec 9 2006 10:52

Well, it's true that i still haven't seen everything, but this must be the first time I see MS officialy state that UpdatePanels aren't really that good when you want to build a slick efficient AJAX page. if you still think i'm wrong when i say that you should only use UpdatePanels if you're lazy or if you don't have the time to "rebuild" your page, the watch this.

by luisabreu

Filed under: MS AJAX, ASP.NET

Comments

# Thomas Wagner said on Monday, December 11, 2006 12:18 AM

Any specific section of the video? Its 75 minute I believe....

# Luis Abreu said on Monday, December 11, 2006 3:11 AM

Hello.

well, if you watch the first 20 mins, you'll see Jeff saying that updatepanels are good, but aren't great if you really want to have a performant ajax web app (which is why i don't like the updatepanel very much; i mean, it's really cool to see that they've managed to build a control which "ajaxes" a page in seconds, but when you're building ajax pages, you should really need to learn javascript and do most things on the client).