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Microsoft's ASP.NET AJAX Framework helps page developers design more interactive web pages by streamlining the postback mechanism. In traditional web pages, a full postback involves the browser re-requesting the page, which is then re-rendered. This re-rendered page markup is returned, in its entirety, to the browser for display. Ajax techniques improve the user's experience in two primary ways through the use of partial postbacks: first, a partial postback is asynchronous, meaning that the user can still interact with the page while waiting for the partial postback to complete; second, and more importantly, because a partial page postback updates only a particular region (or regions) of a page, less data needs to be shuttled between the client and the server, resulting in a quicker and smoother experience.