Working with Ajax Helper in ASP.NET MVC

Ajax driven web applications are quite common these days. While you can use libraries such as jQuery to make Ajax calls to ASP.NET MVC action methods there is an inbuilt way to Ajax enable your forms - Ajax helper. Using Ajax helper you can submit your HTML form using Ajax so that instead of refreshing the entire web page only a part of it can be refreshed. Additionally, you can also render action links that allow you to invoke action methods using Ajax. This article examines these two techniques provided by the Ajax helper.

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