This past week marked the official launch of Microsoft’s ASP.NET AJAX libraries for the .NET platform (formerly “Atlas”). The uptake on this new implementation of a not-so-new technology has been moderate, with the folks who really want to use .NET to target a Web 2.0 solution being the most enthusiastic.
AJAX in and of itself isn’t overly groundbreaking, at least not these days. The ability to do these types of things has been around for some time now (after all it is just Javascript and XML). What is new about packages like the Atlas framework from Microsoft is that it puts these technologies into a much more user-friendly context and makes them more accessible to the less-technical developers. Those who may not have hand-coded their own AJAX scripts will user built-in controls that come with the Atlas package for Visual Studio (and the Express editions).
So kudos to Scott Guthrie and his team for getting this out there. It will make Web 2.0 development on .NET a much more user-friendly experience for developers. But I can’t wait to see what the next new thing will be… As we get closer and closer to eliminating the line between web-based and client-based technologies like AJAX are forming the basis for a new Internet and computing experience.
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