ASP.NET AJAX is all set to provide the power of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML to your web sites. AJAX makes the web pages more responsive and interactive by reducing the page refreshes or post backs. AJAX harnesses the power of client side JavaScript and XML HTTP object to provide these features. Though AJAX is essentially a client side technique most of the real world cases call for server side processing. Most commonly the data manipulated by your web site will be residing in some RDBMS on the server. To make AJAX really useful there has to be a easy and robust way to deal with this server side data. Fortunately ASP.NET AJAX provides a sound infrastructure to do just that. AJAX communication happens between your browser and the server over internet. Naturally, web services can play a significant role in data transport and overall communication between client and the server. In this article we are going to see how ASP.NET AJAX can consume ASP.NET Web Services. ...
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