DevConn Highlights--Hot Scripting

Published 10 November 05 05:56 PM | despos

I counted approx 200 people attending my session on ASP.NET 2.0 Script Callback and Ajax.NET yesterday. Not sure about the share, but it was great. But a measure of the interest on the topic is given by the fact that I finished the session on time at 5.00PM and hang around until 6:15PM to answer questions. (Mine was last session of the day.)

I've seen many of you posting comments and remarks on Atlas and Ajax.NET. Atlas is not an option today, a GoLive license won't be possible until mid 2006. Ajax.NET is an excellent tool. More elegant and lightweight than raw Script Callback, and functionally equivalent of course and available for 1.x too.

On Atlas, I think we have to wait and see to judge. It looks complex, quirky, unnecessarily too rich for what we want to do most of the time--just send an RPC style call to the server. In this regard, what's better than Ajax.NET? I agree.

We'll get back to this a couple of years (?) from now, when (guessing about the date) the Orcas, Atlas-powered platform might be here. What today appears a clear drawback to most people (use of custom JS), might easily turn into a cool and time-saving feature.

Let's wait and see.

 

 

Comments

# paul said on November 14, 2005 09:59 PM:

It was a great talk, check-out the photos....
http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/paul/archive/2005/11/13/133718.aspx

# DinoE said on November 15, 2005 04:07 AM:

Thanks a ton, Paul!

# Joshua Starr said on November 16, 2005 01:02 PM:

I enjoyed that talk, as well as the ASP.NET 2.0 Crash Course on Control development. I walked way understanding a lot more than I knew before.

Joshua

# gilles said on November 29, 2005 09:56 AM:

Congratulation for your nice and usefull website.Good luck for the future.

# sonnerie said on November 29, 2005 09:57 AM:

thanks for the information....

# Allen Guest said on December 2, 2005 10:43 AM:

As far as a development tool that supports synchronous, asynchronous AJAX calls - including support for direct serialization of native .NET data types I went and used a free library from http://www.schwarz-interactive.de/. They have support for 1.1 and 2.0 .NET runtime and it is virtually transparent.

I was quite impressed with the implementation and have used it in a couple of projects so far.

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