ASP.NET AJAX

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ASP.NET AJAX, formerly code-named Atlas, is a set of extensions to ASP.NET developed by Microsoft for implementing Ajax functionality.

Including both client-side and server-side components, ASP.NET AJAX allows the developer to create web applications in ASP.NET 2.0 (and to a limited extent in other environments) which can update data on the web page without a complete reload of the page (a "round trip" to the server). The key technology which enables this functionality is the XMLHttpRequest object, along with Javascript and DHTML.

ASP.NET AJAX is currently in beta testing; version 1.0 beta 2 was released on November 4, 2006.^[1] Microsoft has stated that ASP.NET AJAX will be included in a future version of the .NET Framework.

1 Browser Support
2 Name Change and Road Map
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Browser Support

Currently, ASP.NET AJAX does not support the majority of modern Internet browsers [1], although it does support the vast majority of Internet users by supporting the two most common browsers, Internet Explorer and Firefox [2]. Support for other browsers such as Safari and Opera may improve before the product is officially released.

[edit] Name Change and Road Map

On September 11th 2006, Scott Guthrie, the General Manager in charge of the .NET platform, announced[3] that ATLAS would be renamed, and launched as three products towards the end of the year. The new products will be called the Microsoft AJAX Library, containing the front end javascript library, the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions, containing the server-side .NET code, and ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit, containing shared source controls that can be used to "get the most value from the ASP.NET AJAX Extensions" OK