Atlas

I have been playing around with atlas for the past couple of days. For those who don't know about atlas please visit here. It is a new AJAX framework that sits on top of ASP.NET and let's you enable AJAX on any ASP.NET control.

Today I added two features to the site using Atlas.

• Ability to view comments without going to the feedback page
• Ability to navigate the calendar without page refresh

UpdatePanel in Atlas is an awesome control. In order to enable AJAX on the Calendar control all I had to do was to add the UpdatePanel control on the ASP.NET page and move my existing Calendar control inside it. That's it, I now have a calendar control that can be navigated without a page refresh.

I will explain the code behind the view comments feature in another post.