How to use ASPX to output text for AJAX call

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Thanks for reading!

ASP.Net provides you AJAX functionality through it's own goodies.
I need not to make use of these goodies.

I need to make an asynchronous call from the client and get back just a string straight from the server.

I know you can change the output type of an ASPX call to the server as in Response.ContentType = "some option", but so far I haven't been able to find exactly what I need to just output a simple string (can't believe it).

Can you help me with a basic code model to output a simple string that I can then get from the client side ?
VB or C# is just fine.

I don't need the client call (AJAX), unless you want some upvotes from the public :)


Thank you so much for your help!