There is so much breaking news coming out of PDC2009 that it is very had to keep up with everything. Thank goodness for Twitter otherwise I would find it much more harder to keep up with real time news.
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Take the time to watch the video hosted by James Senior and Stephen Walther to here the latest news on ASP.NET AJAX. There are a number of key announcements here that should appease the open source community as well as making the developers life so much better. These are:
- The Ajax Control Toolkit has been merged into the ASP.NET Ajax Library
- There is now a pure client-side version of the Ajax Control Toolkit as well as the server-side version
- Microsoft donating the ASP.NET Ajax Library into the CodePlex Foundation
- There is now full product support of ASP.NET Ajax Library from Microsoft
- Works across all browsers and any platform; ASP.NET, PHP, Ruby on Rails etc
- Explore the code and make modifications, it’s open source
- Use powerful jQuery selection syntax and Ajax Control Toolkit controls together
- Create your own controls by extending ours like the DataView
You can find the documentation and samples here and download the library here.
What is your opinion on this move? Good or bad and why do you think so?
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