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Old School AJAX
Wednesday, January 24, 2007 @ 1:44 AM :: 276 Views ::
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.NETI''m working on a project right now for a client that uses what I consider to be "old school AJAX" for Classic ASP pages (before .NET). The main function for AJAX enabled applications utilizes a Javascript function called "XMLHTTPRequest". The Classic ASP version of XMLHTTPRequest is called RSExecute and let me tell you, it is one tough mother to debug! Luckily the MSDN documentation provides some help in tracking down Remote Scripting errors, but I was still reduced to healthy amounts of alert() and MsgBox() statements in order to get things working.
It''s interesting to see the progression and history of so-called "new" technologies like AJAX, especially when in this case the functionality has been there for several years (it just needed a cool techie name in order to become more popular). Microsoft has gotten on-board the AJAX train in .NET using what they call "Client Callbacks" in ASP.NET 2.0. I''m hoping that Microsoft''s newest API for doing client-side remote scripting is easier to use that RSExecute!
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