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Asked: 2026-05-23T06:26:18+00:00

I know there have been many posts on jquery vs ajax toolkit and I

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I know there have been many posts on jquery vs ajax toolkit and I have read many of them. But I’m still not getting it completely. I’m hoping this question would clarify it for me unless it gets closed or voted down.

i have been reading a lot that jquery can replace MS Ajax tool kit completely. In my project (web forms), I am currently displaying a gridview that shows an ajax modal popup extender when row is clicked. That MPE has to talk to the database, get an object back and bind to the controls on the MPE popup. I’m assuming this is not easy to do with Jquery. There is no direct server interaction unless I do some web service or something like that. Even in that case, do I have to bring back the entire html preformatted?

If this is not achievable, how can Jquery replace the whole ajax tool kit. Have I misunderstood this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Why do you need to replace the
    AjaxToolkit with jQuery? Some things
    are better or easier with
    ASP.NET-Ajax-Controls and some are
    better,easier or possible at all with
    jQuery. My personal experience is
    that the ModalPopupExtender interacts
    better with ASP.NET-Ajax(f.e. async
    postbacks in popup with ASP.NET-Ajax
    UpdatePanels)than jQuery UI Dialog.

    Q: “Yes, thats what I thought too. but it seems that there is a general argument doing the rounds about not using AjaxToolkit at all. Did microsoft stop enhancing it? “

    I haven’t heart such thing, i’m sure
    that the AjaxControlToolkit will be
    further developed. I think that some
    might argue against it because jQuery
    has a wide distribution and is not
    ASP.NET specific.

    Conclusion:

    if you are using ASP.NET-Ajax
    massively and don’t planning to
    migrate to other technologies, you are
    doing fine with AjaxControlToolkit
    because it’s made for it and prevents
    some issues that you might have with
    jQuery. You get faster sufficient
    results with less effort but you are
    less flexible and maybe lost if
    controls are not available. So you
    should also master jQuery as well.
    It’s not only a control-collection but
    a framework that can help
    significantly to master clientside.

    Copied from my comments as requested

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