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I am a little lost on what happened with ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 with regard to the push for client templates with the jQuery Templates plug-in (which is still in beta) and/or whatever proprietary flavor of the same thing that it had. I thought I heard months ago that Microsoft had abandoned the push for jQuery Templates and that ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 was released (??) with these features that had been featured in the betas and CTPs stripped out. Is this true?

More specifically, what features were removed from ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 between the big, heavily touted preview and the RTM? What stayed?

Jon Davis
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The ASP.NET Ajax Library, not to be confused with ASP.NET AJAX or the AJAX Control Toolkit, was abandoned before its 1.0 release. ASP.NET 4.0's built-in AJAX features are basically identical to what shipped with 3.5, with a couple very minor changes to the client-side library (MicrosoftAjax.js). The similarity in their naming is very confusing, but the two projects weren't tightly coupled, so don't interpret the death of one to apply to the other.

In terms of templating specifically, the DataView that you've seen in the betas and CTPs of the ASP.NET Ajax Library is not going to ship. It shouldn't be used going forward. Focus on using a combination of the jQuery Templates and Data Link plugins to replicate that same functionality.

Dave Ward
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  • OK. And just to clarify, "Focus on using a combination of the jQuery Templates and Data Link plugins to replicate that same functionality", this is the official position of Microsoft and not your own conclusions, correct? I assume as much (I posed the same question in the OP) but just making sure your answer isn't tainted with bias. :) – Jon Davis Mar 22 '11 at 23:33
  • Yeah, that's the only path forward that they're developing right now when it comes to client-side templating, with Boris from the ASP.NET team working on those plugins I mentioned. – Dave Ward Mar 23 '11 at 00:56