Since the time we shipped our first production suite of native ASP.NET AJAX controls back in November of 2006, we've been experimenting with new ways of doing efficient incremental page updates. We felt that we had something promising on our hands with full fledged client-side controls. The ability to create high-level UI elements (menus, ...

  Previously, I have written about Grid’s new WebService running mode, which allows Grid to communicate with an ASP.NET AJAX web service directly from the client, and do all its data loading through it, including paging, sorting, filtering, etc. This powerful functionality is also available on ComponentArt navigation controls: ...