A dissection of the ASP.NET AJAX library – Part 1: The javascript language extensions and object oriented programming

This is the first in a series of articles in which I intend to dissect the ASP.NET Ajax library. I’m relative new to this modern type of javascript programming so I decided to look into the ASP.NET Ajax library to see how certain things are done. This is a report of my voyage.

Basic concepts of the javascript language

In the next few paragraphs I will explain some of the basic concepts of the javascript language that are being used by the ASP.NET AJAX library. I will not provide a tutorial on the javascript language since you can find a lot of them on the internet, but I will provide some explanation on the more advanced language features used.

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