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Mix '06: Atlas
Consider this my intro email about my experience here at Mix ‘06. I’m going to keep this simple though so I don’t stray too far from Atlas. Just know Microsoft is working on some pretty phat things as well as some breakthroughs. Let’s stick with the topic of Atlas though.
Let me say this is sweet. It is essentially an Ajax framework that, from what I saw, blows traditional Ajax devlepment out of the water (nothing personal JSMX. lol). The presenter created a full Ajax site w/ C# in 10 minutes from scratch on stage in front of 17 minutes. It was a small site but none-the-less it was SUPER easy for him to build and only took a few blocks of code to turn the traditional app into an Atlas app within all of 2 minutes. So, for 8 minutes he was creating the standard one and it took him the other 2 to Ajaxify it.
The announcement came today (about 6 hours ago) that Atlas March CTP has been released and is ready for development/deployment. What is the best part? I’m glad you asked. IT IS FREE! This is exactly where I was going with my posts about Backbase looking for you to give up first born to use their framework. Ajax is nothing but native Javascript. Backbase built a great framework it seems but what happens now that the big dog (Microsoft) released a free version that includes things like drag-n-drop, simple integration, etc? Whereas Backbase is a completely different language (BXML) that isn’t the easy to understand at first site. Well, off my soap-box. I have a call setup with a Backbase rep and I’m glad I saw Atlas in action first because this will be one of my first questions. :-)
Checkout Atlas “here”http://atlas.asp.net.
Posted by John C. Bland II on March 20, 2006 12:49 PM | Permalink
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