Time sure flies fast, esp. with the PDC05 approaching fast.
I've been busy getting our Atlas work to come together along with others on the team. Yesterday, I saw a presentation of a preliminary version full-blown app built using ASP.NET and Atlas. Seeing a real app makes the whole difference. The hope is to get the app online during PDC week, or shortly thereafter, so I am not going to talk about the app just yet. For my presentation, part 2 of the two atlas talks (PRS420, Thursday morning), I won't be able to build a complete end-to-end app, given the one hour slot. I'll be presenting an in-depth look at the Atlas framework from the perspective of using its extensibility aspects to build custom application scenarios, components in script and associated server controls etc. The following is the abstract from my slide deck which is more accurate than the online session description that was put together a long while ago:
This presentation takes an in-depth look at ASP.NET "Atlas" from the component developer’s perspective. The first half demonstrates extending the "Atlas" client script library to build classes, components, and controls that encapsulate UI logic, XMLHTTP-based data access, and provide support for imperative and declarative programming models. Next, the presentation explores enriching ASP.NET server controls and the server-based programming model with client-side functionality. Along the way, various script programming patterns, script debugging and related tools are demonstrated.
I also have some bonus content, that I am going to try and get to if time permits.
On Friday (early in the morning... 8:30am...), I'll be participating in the panel discussion on the overall Microsoft Web Platform as it spans from server to clients to tools (PNL06, I believe). I am hoping it will be a lively discussion. For that to happen, I'd love for folks to come forward with their questions, as well as comments and thoughts about what you are doing today in your applications, how you are using the Web Platform, what you'd like to see us deliver going forward. If you have questions you'd like to put forth, you can start doing so now - go ahead and post them as comments below, and we'll pick from them in addition to the ones coming from the live audience. Once the conference is over, I'll post our answers.
Posted on Wednesday, 9/7/2005 @ 6:40 PM