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jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library in use today, appearing on nearly two thirds of the 10,000 most visited sites on the web. With this sort of popularity, it´s clear that ASP.NET developers can´t afford to miss out.

By combining jQuery with ASP.NET you get the best of both worlds: the client-side interactivity and responsiveness of JavaScript with the robustness and extensibility of Microsoft´s web stack. Beginning jQuery 2 for ASP.NET Developers shows you how.

To begin with, you´ll find out how jQuery hooks up with your ASP.NET controls, and simplifies event handling by keeping it in the browser. Then you´ll learn to handle dynamic content and responsive layouts by interacting with the DOM. Effects and animations are one of the most popular uses of the jQuery library, so we cover that next showing you how to get a sleek modern look and feel to your site using some of the vast library of JavaScript that´s already out there waiting to be used.

Ajax is one of the areas where jQuery really shines, so you´ll find out how to make Ajax calls to a web service and get data onto a page without waiting for slow ASP.NET postbacks every time. And no book on jQuery would be complete without jQuery Mobile: the popular mobile web framework that gets you writing sites that work across all the major mobile platforms.

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Chapter 1. The JavaScript You Need to Know
Chapter 2. A First Look at jQuery
Chapter 3. ASP.NET Controls and jQuery Selectors
Chapter 4. How jQuery Simplifies Event Handling
Chapter 5. The DOM and Dynamic Content
Chapter 6. More DOM and Useful jQuery Methods
Chapter 7. Great-looking ASP.NET Pages with jQuery Effects and Animations
Chapter 8. Making Ajax Calls to .NET Web Services
Chapter 9. Creating and Using jQuery Plug-ins
Chapter 10. jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile
Chapter 11. Useful jQuery and ASP.NET Recipes
Appendix: Learning Resources

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Bipin Joshi is an independent blogger and author who writes about apparently unrelated topics technology and yoga. A former software consultant and trainer by profession, Bipin has been programming since 1995 and has worked with the .NET framework since its inception. He is a published author and has authored or co-authored more than a half dozen books and numerous articles on .NET technologies. Bipin was a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) during his tenure as a software consultant and trainer. He can be reached at www.bipinjoshi.com.

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