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ASP.NET Futures (July 2007): What's New for ASP.NET AJAX

The Microsoft ASP.NET Futures (July 2007) release introduces or modifies the following features and changes for AJAX functionality in ASP.NET:

CSS selectors. Updates include specific modifications to APIs, new APIs and bug fixes.
History support and Back button navigation. Updates include support for the Apple Safari browser, server-based state hashing, and encoding and support for history title entries.
Script resource tool. This new utility enables you to extract script resources from assemblies in order to generate script files on disk.

Previous Futures releases included the following features and changes:

Futures (May 2007):
- CSS selectors. These methods enable you to select multiple DOM elements based on CSS selectors or classes so that you can apply behaviors or controls to them. For example, you could add border behaviors to all text boxes that have the same CSS class.
- History support and Back button navigation. You can define history points and URLs that can be bookmarked as navigation points in your application. When users press the Back button in the browser, they navigate backward through your application, rather than navigating off the page.
- Accessing "Astoria" Web Data Services with ASP.NET AJAX. "Astoria" Web data services provide access to database data through REST-based APIs. This release includes a topic that illustrates how to access "Astoria" Web data services using ASP.NET AJAX.
January CTP:
- This release includes a AJAX client component model that builds upon the ASP.NET AJAX Extensions framework. Features include bindings, behaviors, validation, data, and xml-script declarative markup.

This topic is Microsoft ASP.NET Futures pre-release documentation and is unsupported by Microsoft. Blank topics are included as placeholders and existing content is subject to change in future releases.