QUERY: AJAX + MDI = Closest thing to WinApp

[dhruba.bandopadhyay]

I heard that AJAX can simulate "Multiple-Document Interface" in a webpage.
For example:

http://www.live.com/
http://www.meebo.com/

I have searched through the entire http://atlas.asp.net/ website and still
can't find any sample code that can do this.

Can someone enlighten me on how I can get those nice windows using AJAX?

 

[ManicCW]

ajax is techonology that is not so new but it is more and more integrated in asp.net. search "asp.net ajax" and you will find some basic tutorials. but i must warn you ajax is not an easy task. the concept of page is not there anymore.

 

[shroomy]

check out some of the windows controls for asp.net pages from telerik

they have some nice ajax based controls that make your life easier.

writing your own ajax pages can be a pain, and get you more into the page lifecycle, and marshaling etc.. than you ever wanted to be.

to give you an example, just try to hook up two combo's and have the selection in one fill the other one, and then try to have the state of what the user changed retained accross true postbacks.
(if you can do that in a day, when you have not done it before, I would be impressed.)

Now try a application like google maps which is all ajax

 

[dhruba.bandopadhyay]

do you have url for telerik?

 

[ManicCW]

www.telerik.com - how would think that