Yesterday on the launch event of Visual Studio .NET 2005 and SQL Server 2005 in Karlsruhe/Germany we had the idea to create a usergroup/community here in Germany for all Web 2.0 and AJAX developers. If you are interessted in joining such a group please write me a short email or use the contact form at this web site.

The idea is to create web sample applications that will help us to create AJAX and Web 2.0 web sites. We will go in deep details for current frameworks like Ajax.NET Professional, ComfortASP, MagicAjax and, of course, Microsoft Atlas, see the pro and contras for each lib. Also we will have a look on existing prototype JavaScript libs that will offer Web 2.0 effects and methods.

Results of such meetings will be available as download and LiveMeetings (Webcasts) including chat session.

Update: Because of the big response we do not want to create a German-only community, more work will done online so that everyone is invited, thank you for your great feedback!

21 Comments

• Frank said Friday, February 10, 2006 3:35:00 PM

  Hallo Michael, ich bin dabei... vielleicht fehlen noch ein paar nähere Infos, wo, wann, wie?

• kevin said Friday, February 10, 2006 7:07:00 PM

  yea, there are too many out there atlas, ajax.net, anthem, ComfortASP, MagicAjax, etc.
  
  it WOULD be great to find the best of each, reduce the redundencies, and focus on a core library. Then bring in the moo.fx's of the world as "references" to add the dhtml effects we all need.
  
  The coupling between these frameworks and asp.net is the key feature developers need. anyone can grab the prototype library and start building ajax enabled UIs but combining that with the freatures of asp.net controls, events, etc is the real extra bonus I know I'm looking for and already find in the frameworks listed above. But having them in one framework would be ideal and increase dev time considerably, as well as support I assume.
  
  so yes, this is a good idea if a consolidated library is something worth considering.
  
  

• Michael Schwarz said Friday, February 10, 2006 7:22:00 PM

  Hi Kevin,
  
  this is exact what I'd like to do. Have a look on all frameworks available for .NET (and, of course others too), find all the pros and contras, build something like a reference functionality library and hope, Microsoft (Atlas) and other companies are using this to build great controls.

• Brian said Friday, February 10, 2006 7:52:00 PM

  Tell me where to sign up.

• Michael Schwarz said Friday, February 10, 2006 7:54:00 PM

  Hi Brian, we are starting the community right now, you will get more details in the next days.

• Edison said Saturday, February 11, 2006 6:35:00 AM

  AjAx can save BandWidth with a fantastic speed!
  ,and no reload all the page is the seeable feature! Cool!!!
  I want to be enrolled in the community like this, Good Friend , Good Teacher!
  

• Igor Milovanovic said Saturday, February 11, 2006 6:31:00 PM

  I expected the big response to this idea, but a world wide community from the beginning.... wow!
  
  

• erman said Monday, February 13, 2006 1:13:00 PM

  hi michael,
  
  i'll be very happy if i take part a part in this community. thanks for your fantastic solution.

• Adam Rogas said Tuesday, February 14, 2006 2:46:00 AM

  Let me know if there is any thing I can do to help, we would be willing to donate hosting / bandwidth resources if needed.

• Göran Halvarsson said Wednesday, February 15, 2006 1:39:00 PM

  I am very interested. Count the sweed in :-)

• Ric said Wednesday, February 15, 2006 2:50:00 PM

  Michael,
  
  I would love to join the proposed ajax community!
  
  However, I am still confused about AjaxPro - is it open source? (You promised to put original source code of Ajax.NET Professional online more than two weeks ago)
  
  Also we still need a complete example with documentation! Do you really feel you can tackle MORE work?
  
  On the other side, I would love to help you with development. Maybe if you let more people help you, you can tackle this big problems.

• jkarpago said Friday, February 17, 2006 5:23:00 PM

  I am interested too, please, count me in too

• Ahmed Samy said Monday, February 20, 2006 5:36:00 AM

  Please Count me in.
  
  

• Manish Jadhav said Wednesday, February 22, 2006 8:02:00 PM

  Does .Net framework 2.0 (and Visual Studio 2005) make the Ajax development easier? ... as compared to .Net framework 1.1 (and Visual Studio 2003)?
  
  Thanks.
  
  Manish Jadhav
  

• Michael Schwarz said Wednesday, February 22, 2006 8:37:00 PM

  No, I don't think so, you can do AJAX with ASP, PHP or whatever you want.
  
  CIAO
  Michael

• rodrigo diniz said Friday, February 24, 2006 1:06:00 PM

  Count me in.
  You made a very good framework.

• Pieter Siegers said Friday, February 24, 2006 2:34:00 PM

  Hi Michael, if you have any details let me know please - I'm in the middle of preparing an article for ASPToday.com that looks at Atlas, Anthem.NET and your Ajax.NET Pro (installing, using, and comparing them). I would be interested in participating in the community you're proposing.

• Ram said Saturday, February 25, 2006 10:10:00 AM

  hii,
  
  am getting "Access is denied: 'Ajax'." error. pls tell me where shd i change now.
  
  ram

• Gaurave Sehgal said Monday, February 27, 2006 12:30:00 PM

  Kindly include me in it my id is gaurave.sehgal at gmail.com

• Bill Guerin said Thursday, March 2, 2006 3:22:00 PM

  My company is very interested in working with you Michael. We would like to provide assistance with the community you want to establish, and discuss a few other things with you as well.
  
  Please contact me at billg@flatburger.com
  

• David Zook said Monday, March 6, 2006 9:03:00 PM

  Hi, I would be very interested in joining an ajax developers group.