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April 2006 - Posts

Friday, April 28, 2006 5:25 PM

Toolkit refresh teaser

We've been busily working on the Toolkit refresh. I'm not making any promises but I think we can get it out by the middle of next week. Here's a short off-the-top-of-my-head list of what to expect: Incorporated feedback . We've addressed as much of the
Posted by sburke | 21 Comments
Wednesday, April 26, 2006 5:43 PM

Slides & Samples from Atlas Toolkit Talk

I've done a couple online talks about the Toolkit. Here's the slides & demo that I did as part of the talk.
Posted by sburke | 4 Comments

Attachment(s): AtlasToolkitDemo.zip
Friday, April 21, 2006 1:20 AM

Explaining the Toolkit's Extender classes

All of the controls in the preview release of the Toolkit are built upon a set of classes that really help streamline the process of writing control extenders. These classes form a thin "glue" layer between the Tookit controls and the "Atlas" classes
Posted by sburke | 10 Comments
Monday, April 17, 2006 10:45 PM

Update on Toolkit compatibility with Safari

So I finally got a hold of a Mac I could use to try to figure out what the Safari issues are with the Toolkit. What I found was that the toolkit classes didn't work at all . Meaning, it wasn't that they were just buggy or something, they weren't even
Posted by sburke | 0 Comments
Sunday, April 16, 2006 3:23 AM

In case you see compile slowdowns upon adding Toolkit stuff to your website

A customer reported this problem. If you're seeing this, it probably means you forgot to install the April CTP . The problem is that the verson of Atlas that ends up in your bin directory doesn't match the one in your ..."program files\Microsoft ASP.NET\Atlas\v2.0.50727\Atlas"
Posted by sburke | 1 Comments
Friday, April 14, 2006 9:11 PM

Bertrand talks about Atlas and browser compat

I've seen a few mentions of how well the toolkit stuff does (or doesn't) work in Safari. We chose to focus on IE and Firefox for our first release, not only for resource reasons (there's just three of us!) but because of some of the reasons mentioned
Posted by sburke | 0 Comments
Friday, April 14, 2006 4:17 PM

The Toolkit in action: Hooking up the CasdcadingDropDown

The "Atlas" Control Toolkit makes it super easy to add great usability features to your website. One of the things people regularly want to do is to create a "cascading" set of DropDownLists, where the value of each populates the values below. The "Atlas"
Posted by sburke | 13 Comments
Attachment(s): pbrs.png
Wednesday, April 12, 2006 10:43 PM

"Atlas" Control Toolkit available for download

Here . Okay, yeah, it took a little longer than I'd hoped but we made some improvements in the meantime. Check out all the details on the Atlas website , and we've created a forum for the toolkit as well. The controls in the toolkit are basically preview
Posted by sburke | 20 Comments
 
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