ASP and AJAX

[addison]

what is the difference between these two?

[vikramrandhawa]

It is defined as the active server pages...which is used to interact the server pages which coding techniques. An asp page normally consists of HTML and scripting code. In asp, the browser calls .asp file instead of .html and the server processes the script and returns a html page to the browser.

[Christopher]

Asynchronous JavaScript And XML is a client side technique to make web pages more 'seamless' and interactive. As in the name, it consist of a mixture of javascripting and xml (XMLHTTPRequest)

A typical ASP.NET web page contains buttons and links that perform socalled postbacks when clicked. That is, a request is sent back to the server and the whole page (or frame) is reloaded. It doesn't always look nice.

With AJAX the postback is performed in the background. For instance when a button is clicked it calls a script which in turn sends a request to the server. Upon response the script may choose to update only parts of the page (update an image or add a row to a table etc.). The result is a better experience for the user (no flashing or partially loaded pages and so on).

You can use ASP.NET to create AJAX enabled pages.

[maxsamuel]

ASP.Net Ajax is a framework released by Microsoft to develop Ajax enabled web application. One has to write a lot of javascript code to do an asynchronous communication with the server using XmlHttpRequest object previously. Since Ajax has become one of the mostly widely used technologies because of the user experience it provides. Microsoft released its own framework called ASP.Net Ajax which helps to build Ajax application easily and quickly.

The ASP.Net Ajax framework has a control called ScriptManager which manages the asynchronous communication between the client and server. This control will actually emit a javascript code file which has various methods to do Ajax call using XmlHttpRequest object. After releasing ASP.Net Ajax framework, Microsoft with the participation of community developers released an open source toolkit called Ajax control toolkit which has some set of Ajax enabled controls that can be used readily in an ASP.Net application. This toolkit also released its own version of ScriptManager control called Ajax control ToolkitScriptManager which does exactly the same thing as ASP.Net Ajax ScriptManager but with some additional advantages.

[michaelhomas83]

AJAX is technology which is combination of javascript and XML
ASP is server side script which is use to develop web base application using database

[bullockc83]

ASP is programming language which is use in web base application
We can use Ajax in asp page

its client side script which use XML and javascript