Atlas 1.0 Coming as Beta by the end of year

Comments | Share

Scott Guthrie posts about the upcoming Atlas 1.0 release at http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/09/11/_2200_Atlas_2200_-1.0-Naming-and-Roadmap.aspx. The highlights include:

• The only date mentioned is the end of the year for the beta - then will come an RC and then they will decide later when to release the product.
• Atlas will be fully compatible with ASP.NET 2.0 and VS2005.
• Atlas will have a outstanding support model and MSFT is committed to supporting it for the next 10 years.
• The names of the components will be the Microsoft AJAX Library, ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions, and ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit.

Links of interest:

• Microsoft's product support commitment - http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifepolicy
• Using the Microsoft AJAX Library with PHP - http://www.shankun.com/Atlas_Php_2.aspx
• Using the Microsoft AJAX Library with ColdFusion - http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2006/06/29/649944.aspx
• Info on the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit - http://atlas.asp.net/default.aspx?tabid=47&subtabid=477