Tuesday, October 24, 2006
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ASP.NET AJAX stuff

You can listen to the podcast from Hanselminutes.com. Podcast 37 is an interview with Scott Guthrie.

Also Dino Esposito was busy writing about/teaching ASP.NET AJAX. This resulted in an upcoming book called Introducing ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions. Best of all, you can download a free chapter of it here.

The TOC of the upcoming book:

  • Building Blocks of Ajax-style Web Applications
  • Building Blocks of the Atlas Application Framework
  • Updatable Page Fragments
  • Atlas Control Toolbox & Behaviors
  • The Atlas Client Library
  • Web Services
  • Client-side Data Binding
  • Atlas Gadgets

    • I can only hope that the final book will cover the updated Microsoft AJAX bits since last week the Beta 1 was released and I already saw on the ASP.NET forums, where I'm a moderator and top 10 poster, that a lot of threads are added with questions/problems about the new bits as there seems to be a lot of changes since the CTP releases.

    Grz, Kris.

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    Tuesday, October 24, 2006 12:56:18 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [3]  |  Trackback Related posts:
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    Wednesday, October 25, 2006 9:50:21 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
    Yes, the biggest change is the way that classes are defined. This is now done with JavaScript prototypes instead of closures. See the blog of Bertrand Le Roy on how to migrate : http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/archive/2006/10/14/From-closures-to-prototypes_2C00_-part-2.aspx

    Kris, do you know whether Dino Esposito will release an updated version of his book ?
    Stefaan Rillaert | faanAT NOSPAMfab4 dot be
    Thursday, October 26, 2006 7:05:11 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
    I read the article(s) last weekend and hope to get more information when I go to TechEd in a couple of weeks.

    I'm currently unaware of an updated version of the book but frankly the book wouldn't sell that good if it doesn't show the Beta/RTM version bits but only the CTP framework. It seems there are a lot of questions regarding the Beta currently on the forums. I moderated quite some related posts that things are broken since the Beta update and that's probably the reason why I haven't installed as yet. But like I said: I hope to get more information on TechEd about it.
    Kris van der Mast | infoAT NOSPAMkrisvandermast dot com
    Friday, October 27, 2006 2:48:30 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
    Thanks for the reply Kris ! Seems that Dino is not totally happy with the situation either : http://weblogs.asp.net/despos/archive/2006/10/25/Don_2700_t-call-it-Beta-1.aspx

    Have fun at TechEd ! Any information concerning (the release dates of) ASP.NET Ajax revealed during TechEd would be well appreciated. :)
    Stefaan Rillaert | faanAT NOSPAMfab4 dot be
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