“Atlas” is a free framework for building a new generation of richer, more interactive, highly personalized standards based Web applications.
This new Web development technology from Microsoft integrates client script libraries with the ASP.NET 2.0 server-based development framework. In addition, ‘Atlas’ offers you the same type of development platform for client-based Web pages that ASP.NET offers for server-based pages. And because ‘Atlas’ is an extension of ASP.NET, it is fully integrated with server-based services. “Atlasâ€? makes it possible to easily take advantage of AJAX techniques on the Web and enables you to create ASP.NET pages with a rich, responsive UI and server communication. However, “Atlas” isn’t just for ASP.NET. You can take advantage of the rich client framework to easily build client-centric Web applications that integrate with any backend data provider. Atlas” isn’t just for ASP.NET
- “Atlas� enables your site to take full advantage of modern browser capabilities.
- “Atlas� empowers ASP.NET developers to effortlessly create richer web experiences.
- “Atlas� includes a client-side Javascript framework for easy script creation and reuse.
- “Atlas� makes it super easy to consume services from ASP.NET.
- “Atlas� makes building composite applications from the programmable web a snap.