Simone Chiaretta recently posted an overview of a recent Ajaxian poll that sought to determine the state of of AJAX usage among developers in the enterprise... whatever that means. :) Not happy with the lack of detail, Simone did a little number-crunching of his own to determine the usage among developers using the .net stack. He found that among the 381 developers using .net, roughly 36% of them are using Microsoft’s ASP.NET AJAX framework/implementation. Gettin' particular Taking it even further, Simo has now created his own survey targeted directly at .net developers. He’s used the same...

Being Web 2.0 is a hot topic right now. So much so that everyone and their mom is out to dress up their web presence with whatever Ajaxy goodness they can. Lucky for the Internet the ASP.NET AJAX framework has made adding Ajax functionality to asp.net web sites and web applications a pretty simple task. The simplicity is made possible because the framework hides much of the magical mechanics of doing the actual Ajax and DOM work behind a new control, the UpdatePanel. However, like most magical solutions this one comes at a cost. Actually a couple of costs. Two...