Requesting a file using C#, ASP.net and the Microsoft Ajax Toolkit

In this post I will describe how to request a small text file from the server and display its content inside a ASPX page, using server side logic along with the Microsoft Ajax toolkit to provide a more interactive experience for the user. Please see my earlier post on the toolkit for more information.

Microsoft AJAX Control Toolkit

In an earlier post I outlined the XMLHttpRequest object and showed you Java-Script code to implement the API released by the W3C. However, there are other ways to incorporate Ajax into a web-page or a web-application.

This post will concentrate on the Microsoft Ajax Toolkit, a free toolkit released by the Microsoft team making Ajax a plug and play process.

After the jump I will describe the many components available in the toolkit.