September 2005 - Posts

• PDC 2005 Slides and Demo code

  I've uploaded the slides and demo source code for my PDC 2005 presentation on Atlas. To run the demo code, you need Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2, the SQL Express 2005 CTP that came with it, and the Atlas Preview bits, found on atlas.asp.net. Install the Atlas demo, and then create a new Atlas project on the filesystem. You can then expand the demo files into the same directory. If you're using IIS, you will also need to give write access to the ASPNET user to the App_Data directory of the site. Some notes on the demo contents: The database (App_Data\TaskList.mdf) contains the schema for the tasklist. A second database, containing membership and profile info, is generated automatically. You can configure these using the connectionStrings settings in web.config. The app_code directory contains the Task and TaskList business objects, the TaskListService, and the DAL code in the Providers directory. The demo includes the conventional ASP.NET version of the site, in default.aspx and list.aspx. The demo also includes UI to login and register users, in Login.aspx and Register.aspx. A number of asmx files wrap the functionality in TaskListService.cs into web services. AtlasDefault.aspx contains the Atlas version of the list editing UI, showing use of data sources, master details, client-side editing of a DataSource, client-side data insertion, hover behaviors, and autocomplete. AllItems.aspx shows how to use the floating behavior with the profile service to do personalized, interactive UI. Let me know if you have any questions or problems. Enjoy! Posted Sep 21 2005, 01:46 PM by ShankuN with 6 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET, Atlas

• ASP.NET Atlas is now live!

  This morning, we just showed Atlas for the first time to the public in Jim Allchin's keynote at PDC 2005. We've been working on Atlas for a few months now, and it's very exciting to be able to have an early preview release in everyone's hands at PDC. So, how do you get your hands on these Atlas bits? Go check out the Atlas community site at http://atlas.asp.net. Here, you can get download Atlas for use with Whidbey Beta 2. The Atlas preview downloads as a VSI that installs into your Visual Studio Beta 2 release - you get new project items to start building Atlas apps. We also have some documentation available to help you explore Atlas - including some conceptual docs, the full set of Atlas hands-on labs that PDC attendees are using, and a set of quickstarts to help you learn Atlas. The key to the site, of course, is the feedback we get from you - so we have a set of Atlas forums, and pointers to blogs hosted by team members such as Nikhil, Bertrand, and Jonathan. Our ultimate goal with the Atlas site is to build a great developer community around Atlas, and get your valuable input to help build the right product. We'll release updates of our community preview on a frequent basis, as well as samples and documentation. I If you're attending PDC this week, we've got a couple of talks later this week - an overview talk by myself tomorrow at 5, and a custom controls and components talk by Nikhil on Thursday morning. If you didn't get to attend PDC this year, we'll be making the slides and demos from our PDC Atlas talks available on the site in the next few days. Have fun playing with Atlas! And if you'd like to see us talk more about Atlas on the blogs, let me know. Posted Sep 13 2005, 01:00 PM by ShankuN with 7 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET, Atlas, Computing