Thank you everyone who came to my Building "Pure" Ajax Applications talk in Orlando! Here are the performance results recorded during the talk:

Server-Side ASP.NET : 2,884 bytes (response size)

Server-Side ASP.NET AJAX (Update Panel) : 1,663 bytes (response size)

Client-Side AJAX (with Web Service Call) : 778 bytes (response size)

Here is a link to the updated PowerPoint slides:

• Pure Ajax PowerPoint Slides

Finally, here is the code for the different approaches discussed during the talk:

• Talk Code

The talk code includes the pure declarative client-side control sample. This sample also demonstrates how to create templates that can be parsed and used entirely on the client.