Nikhil Kothari (is the architect of ASP.NET Ajax, part of the Web Platform and Tools team at Microsoft) demonstrates the out-of-box features in ASP.NET Ajax can be used to enrich Web apps with Ajax functionality and incorporate various Ajax patterns in a simple manner; he also demonstrates more powerful usage of the script framework, best practices and design patterns for incorporating and encapsulating script functionality. Nikhil led the development of the page framework and several of the controls in the ASP.NET toolbox today. Here you got a go for his demo and presentation. http://www.infoq.com/presentations/ajax-with-asp-atlas-nikhil-kothari;jsessionid=494580136D216A7815F708221F1AF103
