Daniel Gomes Silveira

When we talk about AJAX and its huge impact on Web development, one important thing to mention is that it's not a ready-to-ship component that you just plug into your app and now you're Web 2.0. In fact, what AJAX can do for you is to provide a simple, yet powerful way to make transparent server requests; but nothing more than that. The important point with AJAX is what to do with it. In other words, how do we use it to improve the user experience? Therefore, in this article we'll see how we can apply the AJAX technique to improve the WebDataWindow experience. By the end of this article, we'll learn how to do server-side actions, like Retrieve, Update, and Delete without reloading pages. Server-side Actions Some actions that are done on the WebDataWindow client component require server interaction. For instance, when an Update is executed, it's necessary to go to th... (more)