Part 3. ASP.NET AJAX Futures

It’s been almost a year since the first official release of ASP.NET AJAX, and plans for the next release are well under way. Currently, features for the next release are available in a separate package called the ASP.NET Futures. In this part of the book, we’ll cover some of these features. Chapter 11 is dedicated to XML Script: a declarative language similar to the ASP.NET markup, which is used to instantiate client components in the page. Chapter 12 covers the drag-and-drop engine, which you can use to drag and drop DOM elements in the page. By the end of these chapters, you’ll be ready to use the main features that will be included in future releases of ASP.NET AJAX.