r.a.d.ajax: Time-Saving AJAX from Telerik by Mike Gunderloy You’ve probably heard a lot about AJAX lately. But there are many different ways to add AJAX applications to your ASP.NET applications. This white paper will show you some of the essential differences between telerik r.a.d.ajax and other AJAX frameworks. If your previous experiences with AJAX have been tedious and time-consuming, you’ll appreciate telerik’s approach. AJAX offers your applications better interactivity, smoother updates, and more sophisticated user interfaces.

However, many AJAX frameworks come only at the cost of considerable developer pain: • You may have to add dozens of special AJAX-enabling panels to the design of your forms, possibly even forcing a page redesign to accommodate the requirements of the AJAX framework. • On a page with many controls, the AJAX logic is often scattered around, forcing a “hunt and click” approach to finding out which controls have been AJAX enabled. • Many frameworks treat AJAX as an essentially “pull” operation, so that if one control updates two other controls, you need to set this up in two places—one for each control being updated. • Some frameworks do not support existing ASP.NET 1.0 and 1.1 applications, forcing you to undertake costly and time-consuming rewrites to ASP.NET 2.0 before you can employ AJAX techniques.