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Atlas renamed and works with ColdFusion

Posted At : September 11, 2006 9:44 PM | Posted By : Rob Gonda
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Scott Guthrie has announced the “Atlas” 1.0 Naming and Roadmap that as part of releasing “Atlas”, they have also finally locked on an official set of product names that they will begin using moving forward. What was formerly called “Atlas” will now have a few names:

The client-side “Atlas” javascript library is going to be called the Microsoft AJAX Library. This will work with any browser, and also support any backend web server (read these blog posts to see how to run it on PHP and ColdFusion).
The server-side “Atlas” functionality that nicely integrates with ASP.NET will be called the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions. As part of this change the tag prefix for the “Atlas” controls will change from to . These controls will also be built-in to ASP.NET vNext.
The “Atlas” Control Toolkit today is a set of free, shared source controls and components that help you get the most value from the ASP.NET AJAX Extensions. Going forward, the name of the project will change to be the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit.

Microsoft demonstrated Atlas at CFUnited, and ... well, it wasn't pretty ... Anyways, you can't judge a technology by a bad presentation... I've seen it before, and Atlas is pretty powerful... it's a very well structured library and will probably get a large chunk of marketshare.... It's broken down into two pieces: server side and client side. The combination it's nice, but they're trying to push their JavaScript library and show how it can be used with any server side language... of course it can, so does Rico, Prototype, Dojo, DWR, and a few hundreds... If you wish to give it a try, Microsoft shared the code they used at CFUnited with ColdFusion...

posted on September 11, 2006 at 9:44 PM by Rob Gonda