ajax Technology

For more than a year, a special unit Microsoft strenuously working to create Ajax-branding tool for ASP.Net. Now the work came to an end. Microsoft representatives have noted a great interest in the new product. In the few months before the preliminary version is available, recorded more than 250 thousand downloads. Scott Guthrie (Scott Guthrie), the general manager of units of tools for Web design Microsoft has published in his blog up to date information on the timing of final release Atlas 1.0 and the features of this product.

Scott Guthrie said that Atlas 1.0 will receive full technical support (24/7/365) and a standard ten-year life cycle. Tools will be compatible with Visual Studio 2005, and in the future, we plan to fully integrate it into the next version of Visual Studio, code-named Orcas, which will be released next year.

Plans for the company - the release of Ajax-tools around the end of the year. First, a beta version, then - release candidate, but since this is the final date of the official release. To meet such deadlines in the package Atlas 1.0 will include the most basic functions. They will be selected from the three basic components, which are scheduled to issue separate from each other. Now officially confirmed the names of those components.

1. A set of JavaScript scripts ready to go, called Microsoft AJAX Library. The scripts will run on any browser and will be compatible with any Web server, including under the PHP and ColdFusion.

2. Server Extensions, integrated with ASP.NET, will receive the title of ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions. These components will be integrated into the next version of ASP.NET.

3. Atlas Control Toolkit today is a collection of free open-components subsidiary in relation to the server extensions. In the future, the name of a set of changes to ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit.

Atlas toolkit will be 100% support all platforms and all browsers. He can become very popular among developers who through it could add to this functionality applications ASP.Net Ajax.