Power development, Á la carte

  • You decide integration points rather than forcing you adopt wholesale
  • Encourages good pure JavaScript while performing the heavy-lifting for you
  • Client components are pure Object-Oriented JavaScript
  • Server components are C# / .NET 2.0 compatible

Full client-server Ajax support

  • Cross-Browser Ajax interface allows robust client-server communication
  • Browser compatibility exceeds A-Grade browsers from Yahoo! Graded Browser Support

Built-in JSON serialization

  • Complete client/server serialization/deserialization of JSON
  • Supports deserialization into C# classes

Built-in Client-side templating support

  • Support for generating JBST controls from ASP/JSP-style markup
  • Support for generating JsonML from standard ASP.NET web-pages
  • Allows naturally defining UI markup converted to pure JavaScript

Built-in JSON-RPC 2.0 service generation

  • Generates JSON-RPC services as easy as XML WebServices in ASP.NET
  • Generates JavaScript service proxies so calling JSON-RPC is as easy as calling a function

Build-time JavaScript / CSS syntax checking, compaction, & compression

  • Automatically updates as files are edited
  • Whitespace/Comments removal at build-time, for fast runtime
  • Gzip/Deflate supported automatically
  • Syntax errors show up in Visual Studio errors list

Client-side localization

  • Client-side templates are fully localizable using standard .NET localization
  • Support for localizing in JavaScript

CssUserAgent support

  • Built-in mechanism for supporting browser-specific CSS without resorting to CSS hacks
  • Reduces need for browser specific JavaScript when customizing presentation
  • See the example!

Ajax history support

  • Cross-Browser History interface allows programmatic access to storing history state, restored with the Back/Forward Buttons
  • Doesn't break the browser's forward/back buttons

Server components fully .NET 2.0 compatible

  • Rich, robust Ajax on .NET 2.0
  • Server-side components are written in pure managed C#
  • Optional JSLint support (provided by server-side JScript/jslint.js) is automatically disabled on other platforms

JsonFx is distributed under an open-source license.
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