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        Microsoft Ships April Atlas CTP 
        
        
        
        Microsoft this week released the April Community Technology Preview (CTP) of 
  ASP.NET, code-named "Atlas."
Atlas is an ASP.NET 2.0 framework for building cross-browser, cross-platform 
  AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) applications. The company announced 
  with last month's CTP that it feels Atlas is stable enough to issue a 
  "go-live license" that lets developers put their Atlas applications 
  into production.
Atlas provides client-side script libraries that integrate with ASP.NET 2.0's 
  server-based development framework and provides the same type of development 
  platform for client-based Web pages that ASP.NET provides for server-based pages. 
 "Atlas makes it possible to easily take advantage of AJAX techniques 
  on the Web and enables you to create ASP.NET pages with a rich, responsive UI 
  and server communication," says a statement on Microsoft's download 
  site for Atlas. Developers interested in downloading the latest Atlas CTP can 
  do so here.
 
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
            
        
        
                
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                    Stuart J. Johnston has covered technology, especially Microsoft, since February 1988 for InfoWorld, Computerworld, Information Week, and PC World, as well as for Enterprise Developer, XML & Web Services, and .NET magazines.