Useful AJAX Links

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

This series of 25 videos from Microsoft consists of over two hours of content on how to get up and running with ASP.NET AJAX. Two links are presented for each video -- one for watching the video right away and one for downloading it and watching it later.

• 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)