The Atlas December CTP is coming
According to
Nikhil we should be able to download the Atlas december CTP from the
Atlas community website in a
few hours. Although I read the words a 'few hours' last night... I suppose, since as we all
are developers, we can quite understand the concept of 'releasing in a few hours' :-)
I have been waiting a while for this one. The current build from october is very difficult to work with, the documentation is also very rigid and hard to follow. I am very pleased to learn that they have killed some of the unusable pesky Atlas controls that were in the previous build, quoting Nikhil:
"You may wonder what about all those atlas server controls we had in our PDC release. Wasn't that our integration with ASP.NET pages? Well, in short, they're gone. These controls were really of out of place. They essentially enabled you to generate XML script using server controls. So in order to use them, you first had to learn XML script, and then you had to map those constructs into server control tags. And despite being server controls, you weren't able to use familiar server-side code and programming models to work against them. For this release, we put in a new set of server controls that have been developed with a different perspective."
After reading Nikhil's post I am quite delighted to see that they are doing their best to give us the programming model we are allready familiar with, which is ASP.NET serverside code. Just have a look at the new incremental updates and partial refreshes, very powerful. Interesting sidenote though... this is exactly the approach the guys from
MagicAjax have been working on for a while now.