Yesterday I spoke at SharePoint Fest Denver about building service-based AJAX applications on SharePoint Server 2010. Basically, use WCF REST Web Services for data access, and use a JavaScript client to render your Web Parts. We also talked about the SharePoint AJAX Library, a simple toolkit for client-side rendering within Web Parts. Not only is this an open source project, it’s at the heart of NewsGator product code, and has been tested thoroughly and deployed in the top SharePoint installations worldwide through the NewsGator channel.
Here’s the slide deck plus sample code. The project site for the SharePoint Ajax project is at sharepointajax.codeplex.com.
More posts soon, I’ve been so busy with my children lately and haven’t had time to write! Check out my cute kids on slide 2. 