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Anyone know of a link to a good article/tutorial for getting started using jQuery for AJAX calls rather than ASP.NET AJAX? I'm trying to avoid using UpdatePanels entirely in this app, which I haven't been able to accomplish in the past.

Mark Struzinski
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    Is there a specific reason you do not want to use Update Panels? I am in the same boat and am just wondering your reasoning. Trying to determine ASP.Net AJAX vs jQuery (which I love) or a combination of both... – Andy Brudtkuhl Oct 14 '08 at 21:04
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    @AndyBrudtkuhl The problem with update panels is that post-back the entire view-state, trigger the entire server-page to render, download the entire web-page, and then throw away all the work done by the server - replacing just the contents of the panel. Also, when the panel contents are replaced, the user loses the focus on the control they were in. – Ian Boyd May 19 '14 at 13:38

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The most complete article I've ever found about this topic is ASP.NET and jQuery to the Max.

It avoids update panel, script manager and viewstate.

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Steve Nelson
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Here are a few links:

Madis Otenurm
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azamsharp
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Damien Edwards just gave an awesome talk on this topic at the recent MIX11 conference. You can watch the video online (archived - click any download links below the player) and download his code. He developed a jquery-UI extenders project that works the same way that ASP.NET AJAX toolkit works, but just extends normal controls/tags/elements with jQuery functionality. The project is on CodePlex (archived).

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Eric Falsken
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