AJAX without UpdatePanel?

Say you have a Grid which is having paging, editing and extra, I usually put the whole grid in UpdatePanel to make开发者_开发技巧 the page partially render with AJAX, but I hear that u can do AJAX without UpdatePanel, how is that?

Thanks

How about something like

ScottGu's Blog : Tip/Trick: Cool UI Templating Technique to use with ASP.NET AJAX for non-UpdatePanel scenarios

Using Ajax, Beyond UpdatePanel