Last Tuesday I conducted a presentation at the Microsoft Architect Insight Conference entitled "Architecting web sites using Microsoft ASP.net AJAX". You can download the presentation below.
The aim of the presentation was to get attendees thinking about how they choose to architect aspects of their website with ASP.net AJAX. The presentation was conducted with demonstrations on client and server side data binding patterns, and client and server side authentication patterns. I will be making the code for this available shortly.
It was good to see that the web, user experience and AJAX were well represented at this year's event; all too often these subjects are not considered in terms of architectural considerations, which can easily lead to applications that perform or scale poorly.