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Programming Atlas View Larger Image | Christian Wenz
O'Reilly Media, Paperback, Published September 2006, 403 pages, ISBN 0596526725 | List Price: $34.99
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Learn how to deliver richer, more interactive web experiences to your users
using ASP.NET Atlas, Microsoft's new framework for building Ajax-savvy web sites.
Web developers of all persuasions have embraced the Ajax suite of technologies
(JavaScript, HTTP, XML and more) as a way to implement pages that are faster,
livelier and more desktop-like in their behavior. Now Atlas brings the power
of Ajax to ASP.NET 2.0 developers with controls, script libraries and server
support that delivers engaging results without the pain that writing complex
JavaScript can entail. Better yet, Atlas web pages are standards based and even
run cross-browser.
Programming Atlas is not just another "drag and drop" ASP.NET 2.0 book,
but dives into the technologies that make it work. You'll begin with a tour
of the technologies most often associated with Ajax, from JavaScript and XMLHttpRequest
to JSON and the DOM. With the fundamentals in place, author JavaScript expert
Christian Wenz unpacks the Atlas framework and shows you how to put its tools
to work. You'll learn to:
- Understand the architecture of Atlas and the role played by server conrols,
such as ScriptManager and UpdatePanel
- Use core Atlas controls and extenders to build more interactive pages with
text fields that autocomplete, user input that is validated, controls that
can be dragged and dropped, and much more
- Bind, display, and update data without causing the entire page to refresh
and use the Atlas web services bridge to consume third-party services beyond
the domain of your application
- Incorporate Microsoft Virtual Earth into an application, use Atlas with
Web Parts, and create a Windows Live Gadget
- Use Atlas with PHP and explore other non-Microsoft Ajax tools for ASP.NET
About the Author
Christian Wenz is an author, trainer, and consultant. His main focus of working
and writing is on web technologies and security. Christian has written or co-written
over 50 books for various publishers. He works with both open source and closed
source web technologies. This leads to the unusual situation that he has both
been awarded a Microsoft MVP for ASP/ASP.NET and is listed in Zend's Who is
Who of PHP. He is also listed in Mozilla's credits (about:credits) and is considered
an expert in browser-agnostic JavaScript.
Apart from writing and working on web projects, Christian also frequently speaks
at developer conferences around the globe that cover web technologies. Among
them are 2005's Microsoft Tech Ed Europe conference (BOF session) and the 2005
Zend Conference.
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews: 1 Average Customer Rating: Oct 10, 2006 Christopher Bartling from Minneapolis, MN
OK, but needs more information about UpdatePanel
This book seems to be one of the only books that accurately describes the July CTP release of Atlas. It does a decent job of covering the APIs, but spends a lot of time talking about integrations with web services and third party services. It really could have stood to more accurately explain the UpdatePanel and exhaustively detail that uses of that component, since the UpdatePanel seems to be the central AJAX component. Most people will want to know how to take their existing postback application and apply AJAX to that. This book seems shallow in that regard. Worth the money, but hopefully the second edition expands and gives better core coverage to the framework.
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