Very new to AJAX. Want to insert a record into a database...

Hello everyone,

I am very new to ASP.NET AJAX. I just simply want to insert a new record into a database...

I have a calender, which is using DayRender to highlight days that have meetings on them (pulled from "Meeting" table in database).

When a user selects a date that DOESN'T have a meeting, i want an "Add" button to show that will simply add the calendar's selected date to the Meeting table (the table only has two fields, ID and Date)

I'd like for this to all be AJAXified, so when a user selects a date...it does a partial page render to show the add button (or delete button if there IS a meeting for the selected date already), then when they click the "add" button, it inserts the selected date with a partial page render (or however it works).

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Do I have to create a web service? can i do this just using UpdatePanels? Can someone possibly provide some starter code?

Thanks in advance!

hello.

well, since you're starting, i'd say that this can be done by rather easily with UpdatePanels. Even though i still think they shouldn't be used in most scenarios, the truth is that ~using them makes building ASP.NET AJAX pages easy since you can do most of things on the server side...