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I have been running through the Atlas hands on labs provided by Microsoft lately and really sinking my teeth into Atlas. In a previous post, I showed some of the declarative syntax that Atlas uses and how I thought it was kinda similar to Indigo. Nikhil Kothari commented that its actually much closer to Avalon and XAML bindings which obviously makes a lot more sense, given they are both technologies targetted at the user interface.

I have been playing with Atlas and running through the hands on labs. In lab 2, you create some 'Atlas declarative blocks' to associate async invocations with controls on your form and with a web service. It looks something like (from one of the labs) :-

The ASP.NET Podcast show #18 is now live. Contained in this show:

Wally does a great job again with the latest podcast. In particular he talks about what is required to start being an author. The podcast contains:

Wally has scored yet another good interview with Miljan Braticevic of ComponentArt. ComponentArt is working on a new set of components that provide support for Ajax style development. The podcast has Miljan talking about Ajax, their new components, and a Windows Explorer type sample from the ComponentArt web site at http://webui30.componentart.com/

I only just found this and have found it quite handy. Apologies if its old news to everyone.

While I have been off playing at TechEd, Wally has been busy with the podcasts. The latest one is available for download and subscription. Check it out.

Not long ago, a couple of days before TechEd actually, I posted about my XBox deciding to die for no obvious reason. Well I had 2 Xbox's so I butchered the good parts from one, and grafted them onto the other, and now I have a working Xbox again. My game collection is not totally lost.