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After the long weekend, Scott announced the ASP.NET 3.5 Extension which includes the preview version of long-waited MVC Framework, ASP.NET MVC. Today, there are many websites and blogs regarding ASP.NET MVC. However, just a few of them are talking about AJAX.

In Web form model of ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, along with AJAX Control Toolkit, is the major player for AJAX library. Since ASP.NET AJAX relies on Web form, migrating it to use with ASP.NET MVC which is just a beta bit is not really worth. But in the end, Microsoft will push its AJAX product towards ASP.NET MVC as soon as the latter is ready for production. This can be seen in Nikhil's post about AJAX in ASP.NET MVC. Though Nikhil uses his Script# to create the javascript library, the concept utilizes the behavior/component things which is the concept of ASP.NET AJAX/AJAX Control toolkit. No doubt that ASP.NET AJAX will be the one that shipped with ASP.NET MVC.

As for alternative, jQuery seems to be the winner at the time of writing. Moreover, The latest survey reveals that the most favorite alternative javascript library among ASP.NET developer is jQuery and I don't think ASP.NET MVC will differs from its counterpart. jQuery, in fact , is the fourth but the first two places are in paired, the second actually is not the javascript library so I count jQuery as the most favorite one. However, mootools, prototype/script.aculo.us will gaining their share in MVC as many people will go to ASP.NET for its MVC.