ASP.NET AJAX Quick Start

Definition: ASP.NET(SearchSQLServer.com)

• Definition: Ajax(SearchVB.com)
• Definition: Atlas(SearchVB.com)
• Podcast: Mike Gunderloy on the pros and cons of Atlas (SearchVB.com)
• Download: ASP.NET AJAX v1.0 beta (Microsoft)
• Overview: ASP.NETAJAX (Microsoft)
• Tutorial: “Hello World” in Atlas (Coding Atlas)

ASP.NET AJAX Basics

• Article: A Primer on Microsoft Atlas (Ajax World)
• Tutorial: An
  Introduction to Ajax and Atlas with ASP.NET 2.0 (Erich Peterson,4guysfromrolla.com)
• Tutorial: Asynchronous Communication Layer Overview (Microsoft)
• Tutorial: Partial-Page Rendering Overview (Microsoft)
• Download: ASP.NET AJAX sample applications (Microsoft)

ASP.NET AJAX Tutorials

• Tutorial: Atlas at last! (Adnan Farooq Hashmi) — Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
• Tutorial: Beginning Atlas series: Why Atlas? (Omar Al Zabir)
  Introduction
  Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7
• Tutorial: ASP.NET Atlas Powers the AJAX-Style Sites You’ve Been Waiting For (Microsoft)
• Tutorial: Using the UpdatePanel Control in ASP.NET AJAX Applications (Microsoft)
• Tutorial: Customizing Partial-Page Rendering with Client Scripting (Microsoft)
• Tutorial: Using Timer Control to Enable Partial-Page Updates (Microsoft)
• Tutorial: Creating Custom Client Scripts in ASP.NET AJAX (Microsoft)
• Tutorial: Call a Web Service from JavaScript using Server Types (Microsoft)
• Tutorial: Performing data
  access (Microsoft)
• Tutorial: Call a Web
  Service with ASP.NET AJAX without writing client-side scripts (Fredrik Normen)
• Tutorial: Using Atlas with PHP (Shanku Niyogi)
• Tutorial: Update Panel: Having fun with errors (Luis Abreu)
• Tutorial: What’s up with UpdatePanels and how come nothing works? (Eilon Lipton)
• Tutorial: Cool UI Templating Technique to use with ASP.NET AJAX for non-UpdatePanel scenarios (Scott Guthrie)
• Tutorial: Write
  controls compatible with UpdatePanel without linking to the ASP.NET AJAX DLL (Eilon Lipton)
• Tutorial: Sliding
  Task Lists project — Building an Atlas application from a scratch(Coding Atlas)
• Tutorial: Sliding Task Lists project (day 1) — Building a user interface (Coding Atlas)
• Tutorial: Sliding
  Task Lists project (day 2) — Implementing ASP.NET 2.0 membership provider (Coding Atlas)
• Tutorial: Sliding Task Lists project (day 3) — Using ModalPopup extender to create panels for adding new tasks (Coding Atlas)
• Tutorial: Sliding Task Lists project (day 4) — Database tables and saving new tasks with Atlas (Coding Atlas)
• Tutorial: Sliding
  Task Lists project (day 5) — Reorder Lists and client side update panel
  refresh (Coding Atlas)

ASP.NET AJAX Articles and References

• Article: Atlas renamed ASP.NET AJAX, to ship by end of year (SearchVB.com)
• Article: Atlas: Think before you lift (SearchVB.com)
• Article: Microsoft unleashes Atlas at MIX06 (SearchVB.com)
• Article: Atlas means “Ajax for the masses” (SearchVB.com)
• Article: Microsoft’s Atlas — Ajax in a box (Way.Nu)
• Article: Atlas Programming Model (Nikhil Kothari)
• Article: InPlaceEditing with Atlas Behaviors (Nikhil Kothari)
• Article: InPlaceEditing
  - Implementing Script Behaviors in Atlas (Nikhil Kothari)
• Article: Back Button Support for Atlas UpdatePanels (Nikhil Kothari)
• Article: Script Loading
  Tips (Nikhil Kothari)
• Article: From closures to prototypes (Bertrand Le Roy) — Part 1 Part 2
• Article: How to add Atlas to an existing site (Jay Kimble, CodeBetter.com)
• Article: Add “Atlas” controls to the Visual Studio 2005 Toolbox (Public Sector
  Developer Weblog)
• Article: Dragging and dropping with ASP.NET 2.0 and Atlas (The Code Project)
• Article: Implementing Ajax Using ASP.NET 1.1 (15 Seconds)

ASP.NET AJAX “How Do I?” Videos

• Get Started with Atlas: Watch
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• Get Started with the Atlas Control Toolkit: Watch
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• Use the Atlas CascadingDropDown Control Extender: Watch
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• Implement Dynamic Partial-Page Updates with Atlas: Watch
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• Make Client-Side Network Callbacks with Atlas: Watch
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• Write a Custom Atlas Control Extender: Watch
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• Add Atlas Features to an Existing Web Application: Watch
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• Atlas Enable an Existing Web Service: Watch
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• Use the Atlas TextBoxWatermark Control Extender: Watch
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• Use the Atlas Popup Control Extender: Watch
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• Use the Atlas ModalPopup Extender Control: Watch
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• Use the Atlas AlwaysVisible Control Extender: Watch
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• Use the Atlas Accordion Control: Watch
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• Use the Atlas Client Library Controls: Watch
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• Use the Atlas Collapsible Panel Extender: Watch
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• Use the Atlas Draggable Panel Extender: Watch
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• Build a Mashup using Microsoft Atlas: Watch
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• Use the Atlas DynamicPopulate Extender: Watch
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• Use the Atlas FilteredTextbox Extender: Watch
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• Use the ASP.NET AJAX HoverMenu Extender: Watch
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• Use the ASP.NET AJAX ToggleButton Extender: Watch
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• Use an ASP.NET AJAX ScriptManagerProxy: Watch
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• Use the ASP.NET AJAX DropShadow Extender: Watch
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• Use the ASP.NET AJAX PasswordStrength Extender: Watch
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• Use the ASP.NET AJAX RoundedCorners Extender: WatchDownload

More Webcasts and Videos

• Webcast: Creating a customer view with Atlas (Wahlin Consulting)
• Webcast: Simplifying XMLHTTP programming with ASP.NET Atlas (Channel 9) — Part 1Part 2
• Webcast: Enabling
  Partial Page Updates with the ASP.NET Atlas UpdatePanel (Channel 9)
• Webcast: Attaching
  Client Functionality to ASP.NET Server Controls using ASP.NET Atlas(Channel 9)
• Webcast: AJAX
  Enabling ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts with Atlas (Channel 9)
• Video: Atlas Technical Overview (Microsoft)
• Video: Mashup 101: Virtual Earth — Part 1 Part 2 (Channel 9)
• Video The Ajax Experience (Microsoft)
• Video: Technology Preview (Microsoft)
• Video: Application Demos (Microsoft)
• Video: First
  Look (Microsoft)

Working with ASP.NET AJAX Controls

• ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit home page (Microsoft)
• Article: With Microsoft’s Atlas toolkit, no wait for Ajax controls (SearchVB.com)
• Article: Atlas Control Toolkit: A large, open-source framework (SearchVB.com)
• Article: Atlas Control Toolkit (And Why It Is Really Cool) (Scott Guthrie)
• Article: Testing the Toolkit (Shawn Burke)
• Article: Free Atlas Control Toolkit Test Automation Harness Published (Scott Guthrie)
• Control: Introducing Drag-Drop and Animations with Microsoft Atlas (Shiju Varghese)
• Control: Microsoft
  Atlas Control Extender — Focus (Chris Crowe)
• Control: Master / Detail drop down lists — client side data binding (Coding Atlas)
• Control: Always visible loading image (Coding Atlas)
• Control: ReorderList control (Coding Atlas)
• Control: Atlas
  ScriptManager Control (Nikhil Kothari)
• Control: TextBoxCounter Atlas Extender (Scott Cate)
• Control: Atlas PasswordStrength Display Extender control (Paul Glavich)
• Control: UpdateProgress Control and Ajax Activity Image Animations (Scott Guthrie)
• Tutorial: Working with Atlas Control Toolkit (ASPAlliance.com)
• Tutorial: Dynamic content made easy (How to use the new dynamic population support for
  Toolkit controls) (Delay’s Blog)
• Tutorial: Building a Mashup using the Atlas Virtual Earth Map control (Jonathan
  Hawkins)

General Ajax Resources

• Article: Ajax development: The what, how and when (SearchVB.com)
• Article: Ajax development: The what, how and when, continued — Five tips for getting
  started (SearchVB.com)
• Article: 2005 in review: Ajax makes news, but will it make the grade?
  (SearchVB.com)
• Article: Ajax hype and reality (SearchWebServices.com)
• Article: Can Ajax be running partner of Web services? (SearchWebServices.com)
• Article: Ajax and interface design (Luke Wroblewski)
• Quiz: Ajax quiz: Do you speak geek? (WhatIs.com)
• Reference: Ajax Learning Guide (SearchVB.com)
• Reference: Comparison of Ajax frameworks for ASP.NET (Daniel Zeiss)
• Tutorial: Populating a DropDownList using Ajax and ASP.NET (ASPAlliance)

ASP.NET AJAX Forums and Blogs

• Where peers share know-how and experience: ITKnowledge Exchange (SearchVB.com)
• Forum: AJAX Discussion and Suggestions (ASP.NET Forums)
• Forum: AJAX
  UI (ASP.NET Forums)
• Forum: AJAX Networking and Web Services (ASP.NET Forums)
• Forum: Atlas general questions (DotNetSlackers)
• Forum: Atlas code samples (DotNetSlackers)

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