jQuery and ASP.NET Part 2: Making AJAX Callbacks

Part 2 of this series introduces focuses on connectivity between the jQuery client and ASP.NET server. This article discusses the Ajax functionality available in jQuery and demonstrates a variety of ways on how to retrieve data from the server and use on the client with jQuery. Topics covered using .load() with external content, making Page callbacks with HTML fragments and JSON results and using WCF and ASMX service to create raw Ajax applications that only consume server data. ...