AJAX Auto-Save
By: Joel Martinez on Tuesday, November 29, 2005
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Imagine this ... you're working on typing out a large piece of text into a web form. Halfway through, you try to minimize the browser but instead close it instead. Congratulations, you've just lost all of your work.
One possible solution is to give the user a save button where they could periodically save their work. Unfortunately, when it comes to usability, you cannot assume or expect that the user will do anything. If the user doesn't remember to click save, then all of the development time you spent on that save feature will be wasted. But what if you could save it on their behalf?
AJAX To The Rescue!
Using AJAX.NET, this article will show you how to implement an auto-save feature that will periodically save their document. Other popular products already do this, just look at Microsoft Word, and Google's Gmail.
Sample code is presented in C#.
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