ASP.NET Atlas

ASP.NET “Atlas” This is a package of new Web development technologies that integrates an extensive set of client script libraries with the rich, server-based development platform of ASP.NET 2.0. “Atlas” enables you to develop Web applications that can update data on a Web page by making direct calls to a Web server — without needing to round trip the page. With “Atlas”, you can take advantage of the best of ASP.NET and server-side code while doing much of the work in the browser, enabling richer user experiences.

“Atlas” enables you to build applications with better performance than traditional Web applications in two key aspects — responsiveness and user interface (UI). Traditional Web applications require a round trip for updating data or controls, which can result in long waits. “Atlas”, on the other hand, dramatically improves application performance by reducing the need for round trips.

In addition, since “Atlas” performs much of the processing in the client, it enables you to build a richer UI giving users a superior user experience over traditional Web applications. Not only does “Atlas” give you the power to create all the controls and features users have come to expect from a rich UI (such as drag and drop, auto-completion, mouse hovering behavior, and more), but more importantly, it enables you to build interactive, data-bound controls that allow users to sort, update, or change their view of data with few or no round trips to the server.