Digg Style Ajax Voting Button

Question

Hi all,

Wondering if anyone has an idea of how I could make a digg style ajax voting buttong with ASP.NET AJAX.

Thanks

Answer 1

It is quite difficult to answer your question without knowing your level of knowledge. In order to implement this kind of thing, you need a few general components:

1. you need a "web-service" that implements the concept of a "vote" - you implement this web-service using a framework such as ASP.Net MVC, ASP.Net with WebForms or some other method. When the web service is called, it will increment or decrement the vote count
2. You use a client side AJAX library such as JQuery, or use the built in support for web-service client code in ASP.Net - this code runs in the browser - you need to hook up this code so that when the user selects a vote button in your UI, the client side code calls your web service to increment or decrement the vote.

That's pretty much it in general terms. The writing of this kind of thing isn't too tricky, you have to kind know where all the parts are and how to keep all the balls in the air and it should fall into place.