Horse Race in AJAX

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 09:22:02 GMT

When I was little, I used to play a game on my Apple II called the Horse Race. Basically, there were 5 horses, I placed my bet(s), and the computer randomly decided to pick the horse an the pace to move at each time interval. The first horse to reach the finish line won.

I recently took the effort to convert this simple app into an AJAX-enabled ASP.NET application, as part of my education into writing AJAX applications. You can access my simple application via this link.

ASP.NET AJAX framework allows you to achieve simplistic AJAX effects without resorting to go into Javascripting. The framework provides common used constructs such as timer, progress report, various layout controls and user toolkits. It's ideal for ASP.NET server programmers who just want to achieve some AJAX effect without a lot of work.

You can read my blog here on my development process of this simple AJAX application and my observations.

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