ASP.NET MVC Ajax Helpers - Ajax.ActionLink and Ajax.BeginForm - Screencast

The third meeting of the Tampa ASP.NET MVC Developer Group was a huge success with 66 attendees. You can watch a screencast that recaps how to use the Ajax.ActionLink and Ajax.BeginForm Ajax Helpers to utilize ASP.NET AJAX in your ASP.NET MVC Web Applications.

During the meeting we discussed various techniques and tools for building the UI of your ASP.NET MVC Web Applications:

• ASP.NET Ajax Helpers - Ajax.ActionLink and Ajax.BeginForm
• ASP.NET MVC Contrib - Grid and Pager
• ASP.NET MVC Futures Assembly Controls
• jQuery Selectors, jQuery UI Controls, and jQuery AJAX

During the first half of the meeting, David Hayden showed how to use the ASP.NET Ajax Helpers, Ajax.ActionLink and Ajax.BeginForm, to create a more usable UI for the contact manager application that we have been studying for the past few meetings. In the screencast you will see a quick overview on the AjaxHelpers and how they can be used in your ASP.NET MVC Web Applications for creating, updating, deleting, and displaying contacts from a SQL Server Database using AJAX and LINQ to SQL.

Two versions of the screencast are available for download:

• ASP.NET MVC Ajax Helpers Screencast - WMV File ( 25 min )
• ASP.NET MVC Ajax Helpers Screencast - M4V iPhone ( 25 min )

For information on using the AjaxHelpers in ASP.NET MVC 3 read the following post: Unobtrusive JavaScript in ASP.NET MVC 3 AjaxHelpers

Hope this helps!

David Hayden