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• The Toolkit in action: Hooking up the CasdcadingDropDown

  The "Atlas" Control Toolkit makes it super easy to add great usability features to your website. One of the things people regularly want to do is to create a "cascading" set of DropDownLists, where the value of each populates the values below. The "Atlas" Control Toolkit contains a great extender to make this super easy to set up. It does all of the population of the lists using an async call to a web service, which allows you to filter and cache the data on the server side and easily integrate it into your page. Go here to download and install the toolkit, and the Atlas April CTP if you don't already have it. Once you've got it installed, you can see demos of all the controls in the toolkit. Note that, like Atlas, this toolkit is an early version... Posted Apr 14 2006, 04:17 PM by Shawn Burke's Blog Filed under: Atlas, Agility

• "Atlas" Control Toolkit available for download

  Here . Okay, yeah, it took a little longer than I'd hoped but we made some improvements in the meantime. Check out all the details on the Atlas website , and we've created a forum for the toolkit as well. The controls in the toolkit are basically preview quality. They work at basic scenarios and we'll be releasing refreshes to deal with issues as we find them. But what's more important to me is that they'll hopefully give you examples to start writing controls of your own. The toolkit includes full source for all of the controls, plus the sample website that demonstrates them. The source is licensed under the Microsoft Permissive License which allows you to modify and reuse the code as you see fit. The toolkit also includes a VSI that sets up... Posted Apr 12 2006, 10:43 PM by Shawn Burke's Blog Filed under: Atlas, Agility