ASP.NET Atlas Announcements

"Atlas" July CTP Release

2006-07-31T23:26:00Z

The July CTP release of "Atlas" is now available at http://atlas.asp.net. This release primarily fixes known bugs from the June release.

If you're just starting out, be sure to check out the Atlas website where you can see live demos and videos and find all the documentation you need to get started.

Release notes for the ASP.NET "Atlas" Technology Preview July CTP release

UpdatePanel and ScriptManager:

ScriptManager.RegisterControl() takes optional parameter to specify client type to create
Fix for UpdatePanels in Firefox

Drag and Drop:

Added public dragStart/dragEnd events to DragDropManager
dragStart fires with dragMode, dataType, and data as eventArgs
dragStop fires with empty eventArgs
style.position of dragVisuals will no longer default to "absolute"
DragDropManager do longers disposes dropTargets when unregistering them
FloatingBehavior now unregisters itself on dispose

"Atlas" June CTP Release

2006-06-30T17:53:00Z

The June CTP release of "Atlas" is now available at http://atlas.asp.net. This release includes bugfixes plus some additional new functionality including dynamic update panels.

Atlas continues to move forward with this release. We expect to do another preview in approximately 6-8 weeks and are using the enthusiastic feedback from the developer community and helpful suggestion and bug reports to improve it as we move ahead. If you're just starting out, be sure to check out the Atlas website where you can see live demos, videos and find all the documentation you need to get started.

Release notes for the ASP.NET "Atlas" Technology Preview June CTP release

UpdatePanel:

UpdatePanels can be added to a page dynamically throughout the page lifecycle, including UpdatePanels inside templates. UpdatePanels now also work inside WebParts, and WebParts can be inside UpdatePanels.

UpdatePanel will preserve cookies set during an async postback when Response.Redirect() is called. This fixes Login control scenarios where an authorization cookie is set and the user gets redirected to the previous page.

Networking:

ServiceMethod uses default error handler if none specified

XsltBridgeTransformer now works with VirtualPathProviders

DBNull.Value now should be serialized as null

ServiceReferences now support optional InlineProxy attribute for generating service proxies in the page rather than through a serviceurl/js script reference.

Fix for scenarios where web service proxy contained the wrong port (webfarms, port forwarding)

Drag and Drop

Drag and drop will no longer produce debug output

Interactive HTML elements (input, button, textarea, select, label, anchors with an href) can no longer be dragged directly

Misc changes:

Date.toFormattedString improvements

Client-side data: SaveData fix for strongly-typed DataSets

"Atlas" April CTP Release

2006-04-11T02:22:00Z

The April CTP release of "Atlas" is now available at http://atlas.asp.net. This is primarily a bugfix release to the March CTP and includes no new functionality.

The Atlas Wiki download has been removed until the Wiki is updated to work with the March CTP release, in the coming weeks.

Also, check out the new Atlas website. We've given it a new look with Atlas featured in some of the controls. There is also a wealth of great learning material available, including webcasts, screencasts, expert videos and updated documentation and Quickstarts.

Release notes for the ASP.NET "Atlas" Technology Preview April CTP release

Profile Service:

Add more smarts for coercing Javascript data into compatible types on the Profile object

Control Extenders:

AutoCompleteExtender: Selection prevents AutoPostback of textBox

There should be an error when the control referenced by the TargetControlID of the AutoCompleteExtender does not exist

Bridge and Services:

Web services bridge doesn't handle xml serializable return values from methods marked with response format as xml; throws exception instead.

Data:

DataService now can't be called cross-domain by default:
In the same way that web service methods need to be marked with the WebOperation attribute to allow them to be called cross-domain, a DataService's select, update, insert and delete methods need to be marked with the same attribute to be callable cross-domain (a typical scenario where this is necessary are live.com gadgets). If the DataService uses the DataAdapterAttribute to point to an external data provider such as a strongly-typed DataSet, the attribute needs to use the new safeForCrossDomain and/or getVerbEnabled parameters.

get_serviceType returns serviceUrl

Misc:

Atlas can't be used on no-compile pages

UpdatePanel and ScriptManager:

ScriptManager and ScriptManagerProxy throw exceptions at design time inside UserControls

UpdatePanel doesn't work if page header contains invalid XML

Menu control inside UpdatePanel causes JavaScript errors

Assertion Failed: elements in children collection should always have nodeType = 1

If a behavior has an ID and is within an UpdatePanel, then postbacks cause Atlas to assert

WebParts:

WebPart title bar has incorrect cursor when WebPartZone is inside UpdatePanel

Verbs should render in TitleBar in FireFox and Safari, not in DropDownMenu

WebPart.initialize() throws NullReferenceException if ChromeType is None or BorderOnly

Syntax error in Release version of AtlasWebParts.js

WebPartHelpMode.Modal does not work in FireFox or Safari

Setup and Project:

Users can now choose to continue or stop the setup if a required component is missing during installation. Example: Registrating the .asbx extension in IIS while IIS is not installed. Instructions of re-enabling a feature is provided for the case that the missing component is installed later.

The namespace attribute xmlns in the web.config file of the Atlas project template is removed. The namespace attribute was preventing other non-ASP.NET components to read their corresponding configuration settings.

Gadgets:

Gadgets that contain CDATA sections in their ContentTemplate will break