Web Client Software Factory and ASP.NET AJAX - Marriage Made in Heaven :)
by David Hayden ( Florida .NET C# SQL Server Developer ), Filed: Web Client Software Factory
Last night I quickly verified the Validation Application Block in Enterprise Library 3.0 worked well with the UpdatePanel in ASP.NET AJAX:
Validation Application Block and ASP.NET AJAX - Enterprise Library 3.0 Tutorials
so during lunch I thought I would do a quick check to verify that the Web Client Software Factory worked with ASP.NET AJAX as well. And, yeah, it does :)
I took the same demo I presented at the South Florida Code Camp and added the UpdatePanels and ScriptManagers to each page as so:
and everything worked as expected. You get the wonderful functionality of the Web Client Software Factory and AJAX.
I suspect the Web Client Software Factory Team will come out with more direct support for ASP.NET AJAX in the next release, but for now you can certainly integrate the ASP.NET AJAX functionality yourself.
For more information on integrating ASP.NET AJAX to an existing website, check out Joe Stagner's Video:
How Do I: Add ASP.NET AJAX Features to an Existing Web Application?
Source: David Hayden ( Florida .NET C# SQL Server Developer )
Filed: Web Client Software Factory