The beginnings of an AJAX Wrapper for .NET

At my last company we used javascript-invoked webservices to do behind-the-scenes updates of data in our enterprise-level asp.net application. It was one of the many hoops we had to jump through, and one that made me swear I'd not do asp.net on my next project. a formal AJAX implementation in .NET would have made things a lot easier: New version of AJAX Wrapper for .NET