《Microsoft AJAX》.pdf

Object-Oriented JavaScript In this chapter, youll learn about OOP (Object-Oriented Programming) and how it relates to JavaScript. As an ASP.NET developer, you probably have some experience working with objects, and you may even be familiar with concepts such as inheritance. However, unless youre already an experienced JavaScript programmer, you probably arent familiar with the way JavaScript objects and functions really work. This knowledge is necessary in order to understand how the Microsoft AJAX Library works, and this chapter will teach you the necessary foundations. More specifi cally, you will learn: • What encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism mean • How JavaScript functions work • How to use anonymous functions and closures • How to read a class diagram, and implement it using JavaScript code • How to work with JavaScript prototypes • How the execution context and scope affect the output of JavaScript functions • How to implement inheritance using closures and prototypes • What JSON is, and what a JSON structure looks like In the next chapters youll use this theory to work effectively with the Microsoft AJAX Library. Concepts of Object-Oriented Programming Most ASP.NET developers are familiar with the fundamental OOP principles because this knowledge is important when developing for the .NET development. Similarly, to develop client-side code using the Microsoft AJAX Library, you need to be familiar with JavaScripts OOP features. Although not particularly diffi cult, understanding these features can be a bit challenging at fi rst, because JavaScripts OOP model is different than that of languages such as C#, VB.NET, C++, or Java. Object-Oriented JavaScript JavaScript is an object-based language. Just as in C#, you can create objects, call their methods, pass them as parameters, and so on. You could see this clearly when working with the DOM, where you manipulated the HT