Advanced ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls For .NET Framework 3.5

3. Components

IN CHAPTER 2, “MICROSOFT AJAX Library Programming,” we began our discussion of the Microsoft AJAX Library and how it extends the built-in JavaScript types with new features, how to use the Prototype Model to extend the Library with our own custom types, and we even covered a few of the important prebuilt types.

In this chapter, we continue our discussion of the Microsoft AJAX Library by covering components and its two derived types, controls and behaviors. This chapter is the start of creating client objects that will be related to server controls.

Components Defined

A component is any object whose client type inherits from Sys.Component. They are extremely important because you’ll use the Sys.Component base type to extend the ...