ASP.NET Atlas Announcements

ASP.NET ‘Atlas’ Technology Preview January 2006 release

The January 2006 release of Atlas is now available at http://atlas.asp.net.   With this new release, we've discontinued support for the Hands-on-lab VSI.   The Atlas Wiki, which was released last month, was not refreshed but is still available for download.   We plan to ship a newer version of the Wiki next month, along with a live-hosted version running on atlas.asp.net.

Release notes for ASP.NET ‘Atlas’ Technology Preview January 2006 release

Note: you must first remove previous installations of the Atlas VSI before installing the January release.

Added

• Error handling in ScriptManager and UpdatePanel
  • New ScriptManager.ErrorTemplate property
  • New ScriptManager.PageError event to customize error messages
• Support for HTTP redirects during partial rendering (automatic)
• Some controls on pages with partial rendering can now do regular postbacks
  • Controls inside UpdatePanels always invoke async postbacks
  •  Controls that are the target of an UpdatePanel's Trigger invoke async postbacks
  • Non-visual controls such as the <atlas:TimerControl> control invoke async postbacks
  • Other controls will do regular postbacks
  • New ScriptManager.RegisterAsyncPostbackControl(...) method to indicate a control should invoke an async postback
• Async updates that come from within an UpdatePanel will automatically cause that panel to be refreshed
• UpdateProgress control that shows status while an async postback is in progress, with a button to abort the request