This document Describes changes to the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions and the Microsoft AJAX Library (both products formerly code-named “Atlas” and collectively referred to as ASP.NET AJAX) since the most recent Community Technical Preview (CTP) release.
The ASP.NET team is delivering a framework for generating Web applications that can take advantage of the latest capabilities in client functionality that fall under the general banner of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) and Rich Interactive Applications (RIA). The new Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX addition to the .NET Framework includes a suite of JavaScript libraries (the Client Framework or Client FX) that are the foundation for creating rich behaviors and control-like functionality in the browser. ASP.NET AJAX also includes a set of a server controls and base classes for extender controls (the Server Framework or Server FX) that provides AJAX programming functionality and experiences for ASP.NET Web developers.
ASP.NET AJAX functionality has been available to the public since October 2005 as a series of Community Technology Previews (CTPs), demonstrating everything from rich client behavior and asynchronous Web page postbacks to invoking and consuming Web services through JavaScript proxies.
This paper describes the major differences between the final CTP release (made publicly available in July 2006) and the upcoming Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX v1.0 release (here called the RTM release). It also discusses a "futures" preview version (the Futures release) that adds functionality to the RTM release. (The RTM and the Futures releases together enable the full functionality and customer scenarios that were supported in the early CTP releases.) Further changes to the RTM and Futures releases may occur up to the Release Candidate (RC) version, which will be the final release before RTM.
The document is organized in sections detailing specific functionality in the CTP release and how the same functionality is achieved with the RTM release. For each change there is a description of the reasons behind the change along with some technical insights.
The ASP.NET team is delivering a framework for generating Web applications that can take advantage of the latest capabilities in client functionality that fall under the general banner of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) and Rich Interactive Applications (RIA). The new Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX addition to the .NET Framework includes a suite of JavaScript libraries (the Client Framework or Client FX) that are the foundation for creating rich behaviors and control-like functionality in the browser. ASP.NET AJAX also includes a set of a server controls and base classes for extender controls (the Server Framework or Server FX) that provides AJAX programming functionality and experiences for ASP.NET Web developers.
ASP.NET AJAX functionality has been available to the public since October 2005 as a series of Community Technology Previews (CTPs), demonstrating everything from rich client behavior and asynchronous Web page postbacks to invoking and consuming Web services through JavaScript proxies.
This paper describes the major differences between the final CTP release (made publicly available in July 2006) and the upcoming Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX v1.0 release (here called the RTM release). It also discusses a "futures" preview version (the Futures release) that adds functionality to the RTM release. (The RTM and the Futures releases together enable the full functionality and customer scenarios that were supported in the early CTP releases.) Further changes to the RTM and Futures releases may occur up to the Release Candidate (RC) version, which will be the final release before RTM.
The document is organized in sections detailing specific functionality in the CTP release and how the same functionality is achieved with the RTM release. For each change there is a description of the reasons behind the change along with some technical insights.
