Two days ago, on Saturday, I attended Toronto Code Camp 2008 , the third such event organized in our fair city. It was my first time at a Code Camp and I had a good time and learned a lot. In addition to attending some very interesting presentations and chatting with people from the ASP.NET community, I got to speak as well! My talk was about how ASP.NET AJAX exposes web services on the client, and how that can be connected with "client-centric" controls, such as those in Web.UI. After some introductory examples of accessing web services from client-side code, I demonstrated how ComponentArt TreeView and Grid can load data directly from web services using the ASP.NET AJAX. Those interested can download the (simple, introductory) code samples here . P.S. After the talk, Joel Tulloch pointed out to me that it isn’t necessary to mirror the server-side classes on the client by hand. We can use the GenerateScriptType attribute for this, as he describes on his blog . Very neat stuff. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
