ASP.net MVC with Ajax

Question

Does anyone know of an updated tutorial on using Ajax with ASP.net MVC? Most of what I can find seems to be talking about older versions of MVC, and I suspect this is an area in which there have been a lot of changes lately.

Answer 1

Stephen Walter just wrote about it: http://weblogs.asp.net/stephenwalther/archive/2008/09/22/asp-net-mvc-application-building-forums-6-ajax.aspx

Answer 2

Stephen Walter's Post Creating ASP.NET MVC: Forums # 6 - Ajax "seems to be focused on Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX.

A quick google search for " ASP.NET MVC jquery " creates several resources for javascript without MS.

I tend to demos and tutorials other than MS AJAX, as they demonstrate models and practices with an agnostic platform.

Answer 3

If you are looking for form-based Ajax support in MVC, check out Scott Hanzelman's post:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ASPNETMVCPreview4UsingAjaxAndAjaxForm.aspx

It seems that there is currently no good support for end-to-end validation using Ajax forms. Most of the articles I read use a combination of a client library and server-side annotations. I hope the full beta version of MVC will contain better support.

Also, be sure to note that Microsoft will include jQuery as its officially supported library for Ajax development. Scott Guthrie spoke of this:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/09/28/jquery-and-microsoft.aspx