The Web Control Framework includes a number of AJAX related features and controls. These controls are made up of a mixture of client side and server side controls. The client side components make use of the popular jQuery Javascript Library and provides a host of additional Javascript client functionality on top of jQuery.

For an introduction of what jQuery provides and how it works please check out this article online.

The features of the client side code are provided through ww.jquery.js which file which contains a rich set of jQuery plug-ins, classes and base Javascript extensions that handle the HTTP messaging, JSON serialization window management and many additional utility features.