ASP.NET AJAX Incomplete Documentation

While the docs are pretty nice, nicely formatted and have some decent examples, theyre very incomplete.

Just as an example; try to find Sys.Browser anywhere on the docs site. I sure cant.

When is the documentation going to be updated and complete?

That is screwing me as well. Instead of giving us the documentation your soon here microsoft annoucing another version of ajax! also un-documented.

Thank you for this feedback, and I am sorry Sys.Browser is missing from the documentation. I will find out when documentation for Sys.Browser will be published.

Thanks again for the feedback. This class will be documented and I'll post a link to this thread when it is ready.

Gosh, if documentation of a javascript function were 'screwing' me, I'd probably go do something crazy like, I don't know, open the ajax.debug.js file and look at the available methods and their signatures.

But that's just me.

ASP.NET Ajax beginner question

Hi all,
I followed first walk through sample from
http://ajax.asp.net/docs/tutorials/IntroductionUpdatePanel.aspx to create my first testing page, The problem is after I clicked that botton, it still trigged a postback. Do I miss something?

Following is my code:

ASPX Page

<%@dotnet.itags.org. Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %
<%@dotnet.itags.org. Register Assembly="System.Web.Extensions, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" Namespace="System.Web.UI" TagPrefix="asp" %
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
<title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager1" runat="server">
</asp:ScriptManager>
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanel1" runat="server">
<ContentTemplate>
<asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="Parcel created"></asp:Label>
<asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" OnClick="Button1_Click"
Text="Button" />
</ContentTemplate>
</asp:UpdatePanel>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html
Code behind

using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;

public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}

protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) {
Label1.Text = "Refreshed at " + DateTime.Now.ToString();
}
}

Html code generated by page

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head><title>
Untitled Page
</title></head>
<body>
<form name="form1" method="post" action="Default.aspx" id="form1">
<div>
<input type="hidden" name="__EVENTTARGET" id="__EVENTTARGET" value="" />
<input type="hidden" name="__EVENTARGUMENT" id="__EVENTARGUMENT" value="" />
<input type="hidden" name="__VIEWSTATE" id="__VIEWSTATE"
value="/wEPDwULLTEyNTU5OTE4NDBkZFFbG+xINimfJjnJzMPyN5/bdPcr" />
</div
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var theForm = document.forms['form1'];
if (!theForm) {
theForm = document.form1;
}
function __doPostBack(eventTarget, eventArgument) {
if (!theForm.onsubmit || (theForm.onsubmit() != false)) {
theForm.__EVENTTARGET.value = eventTarget;
theForm.__EVENTARGUMENT.value = eventArgument;
theForm.submit();
}
}
// -->
</script
<script
src="http://forums.asp.net/AjaxSandbox/WebResource.axd?d=uPSIJPV09GNZkXa1aWLuZA2&t=632961560341637622" type="text/javascript"></script
<script
src="http://forums.asp.net/AjaxSandbox/ScriptResource.axd?d=Rdf9isNeXMPi-qNzO-XVRmXNOH0DmLQG-4RxW5WORPfrZ2K0YD5Icg_Bz9c5f0-wuytwMMng0hZa1k1SSKrW5yqEjrhREy__cV5gKfSghPU1&t=633053156500271737" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script
src="http://forums.asp.net/AjaxSandbox/ScriptResource.axd?d=Rdf9isNeXMPi-qNzO-XVRmXNOH0DmLQG-4RxW5WORPfrZ2K0YD5Icg_Bz9c5f0-wuytwMMng0hZa1k1SSKrW572e2ypQhyGf_JtyUNuUy11_drtp-tXJrGLYVAgwBUoK0&t=633053156500271737" type="text/javascript"></script>
<div>
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManager._initialize('ScriptManager1',
document.getElementById('form1'));
Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManager.getInstance()._updateControls(['tUpdatePanel1'], [], [], 90);
//]]>
</script
<div id="UpdatePanel1"
<span id="Label1">Parcel created</span>
<input type="submit" name="Button1" value="Button" id="Button1" /
</div>
</div>

<div
<input type="hidden" name="__EVENTVALIDATION" id="__EVENTVALIDATION"
value="/wEWAgLk5+S6DwKM54rGBofhZslYBM4FNpmEHJadJ6r8Aq3Z" />
</div
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
Sys.Application.initialize();
// -->
</script>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Hey,

For your script manager, add EnablePartialRendering="true", and for your updatepanel, add Mode="Always".

Neither of those things should be necessary. (They're both the defaults.) Also, it's "UpdateMode" now (not "Mode" as it was in early CTPs).

My guess is that something's wrong in your web.config... did you start from the "ASP.NET AJAX-Enabled Web Site" template? Are there any JavaScript errors on the page when you first load it?

Steve Marx:

Neither of those things should be necessary. (They're both the defaults.) Also, it's "UpdateMode" now (not "Mode" as it was in early CTPs).

My guess is that something's wrong in your web.config... did you start from the "ASP.NET AJAX-Enabled Web Site" template? Are there any JavaScript errors on the page when you first load it?

You are right, I didn't start a new web site with "ASP.NET AJAX-Enabled Web Site" template. I adjusted web.config manually, and it works.