Get Started with the AjaxPro code
Ajax.NET Professional (AjaxPro) is a Ajax Framework for the Microsoft .NET Framework which you can use with any .NET language like C#, VB.NET, J# to create JavaScript proxies to invoke any .NET method from the client-side. Download the AjaxPro.2.dll (for .NET 2.0) from http://www.ajaxpro.info/, add the reference and setup the web.config:
<configuration> <location path="ajaxpro"> <system.web> <httpHandlers> <add verb="*" path="*.ashx" type="AjaxPro.AjaxHandlerFactory,AjaxPro.2"/> </httpHandlers> </system.web> </location> </configuration>
Next we need to write our .NET method that will return the data we will ask for. A simple static method can be used with nearly any .NET data type, but I recommend to use only structs/classes with JavaScript similar data types for the properties.
namespace MyNamespace { public class MyClass { [AjaxPro.AjaxMethod] public static string HelloWorld(string s) { return "Hello " + s; } } }
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The Ajax endpoint
To get the name of the Ajax request endpoint you must use the namespace, classname and the assembly name like below:
string path = "/ajaxpro/MyNamespace.MyClass,"; path += typeof (MyClass).Assembly.FullName.Split(',')[0]; path += ".ashx";
Write the above string to a JavaScript variable using RegisterHiddenField or any other way.
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Run the AjaxPro request
The next step would be to use jQuery to invoke the AjaxPro request. I used a very simple example to show what you need.
$.ajax({ type: "POST", url: MyAjaxPath, // this is the path from above data: '{"s":"Hans"}', beforeSend: function(xhr) { xhr.setRequestHeader("X-AjaxPro-Method", "HelloWorld"); }, success: function(s) { var o = null; eval("o = " + s + "*"+"/"); alert(o); } });