What's New with "Atlas"?
It's been a while since my last post. The silence and lack of new content is by no way an indication of a lack of new developments in the web platform & tools space here at Microsoft. In fact, I've been pretty busy with some exciting developments over the last month and preparing for our fall event schedule.
With the month of July it was a prime opportunity for a new Community Technology Preview (CTP) release and the engineering team didn't disappoint. The Atlas July CTP is ready for download and includes several UpdatePanel, ScriptManager and drag-and-drop bug fixes. This is the 4th Atlas CTP release since March. Don't forget to checkout the latest Atlas Control Toolkit as well on CodePlex.
We hosted TechReady3 the week of July 24 here in Seattle to help Microsoft's technical field prepare for the next wave of technology developments aimed at the enterprise segment. Since "Atlas" has been in CTP form since October 2005 and has had a Go-Live license since March, it was heavily featured at TechReady3. We received some great feedback on the product plan and the field is really excited with where we are headed.
Joe Stagner, has published a How-To video on "Atlas" that I highly encourage everyone to check out. The video is just under 12 minutes long and discusses how to make network callbacks directly from client-side script. There are several other ASP.NET and "Atlas" videos in the video showcase. Watch them all and let us know what you think.
Up next for me are a few Tech-Ed events in the Asia/Pacific region. Specifically, I will be presenting on ASP.NET, "Atlas," and Visual Studio for Web development at Tech-Ed Australia (Sydney), Tech-Ed New Zealand (Auckland) and Tech-Ed Southeast Asia (Kuala Lumpur). It should be a lot of fun as we continue to build the momentum created by the domestic Tech-Ed event which took place in Boston the week starting June 11.
