MS AJAX combines rich, cross browser client side libraries with ASP.NET’s popular server side development technology to offer an ideal developers toolbox for developing the next generation of Web Applications. In this session Joe will guide you through all three sets of MS AJAX technology. Whether your web platform of choice is ASP.NET or something else, this session will expose AJAX programming with the Microsoft AJAX tools.

Speaker Bio: Joe Stagner joined Microsoft in 2001 as a Technical Evangelist and is now a Microsoft.NET team Program Manager (Web Tools and Platform). A former Developer Community Champion with the Microsoft MSDN Team of Digital Blackbelt fame, his development experiences have afforded him the opportunity to create commercial software applications across a wide diversity of technical platforms from Mainframes, through UNIX and Linux, to Microsoft Technologies on the Intel and Mobile computing platforms. In recent years, Stagner has been focused on highly-performant, geoscalable web application architectures, multi-platform interoperability and--above all--writing secure code.