Ajax on Mono

Question

Do you guys know about an ajax toolkit (or something similar to the m$-ajaxtoolkit) for mono??

Answer 1

I'd recommend rolling your own using jQuery. That's what m$ is doing now anyway.

Answer 2

Microsoft's ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit works on Mono, and is open source (Ms-PL). That doesn't preclude the use of jQuery, though. There are actually several third party AJAX libraries and control toolkits that support Mono, and many are compatible or work in conjunction with ASP.NET AJAX.

Answer 3

I agree with Brian, but want to add that you should read Dave Ward's series on jQuery and ASP.net. He really distills the essence of what you can do with jQuery, PageMethods, and WebForms without MS Ajax. These ideas are directly applicable to the Mono / Linux environment.

Here's a list of essential posts:

Using jQuery to directly call ASP.Net Ajax PageMethods

Use FireBug To Learn jQuery

Simplify calling ASP.NET Services with jQuery