| Downloading, Installing and Inspecting Atlas |
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This video demonstrates where to locate the download for Atlas, how to install, and the shows the javascript files that comprise it. Also, demonstrates how to add the Atlas server controls into the toolbox.
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| Extending Existing Controls with the UpdatePanel |
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This video stays on the theme of the UpdatePanel, showing how it could be used to provide existing application Ajax-like functionality. In this video we show how to take a typical data grid view bound to a database and add a couple of UpdatePanels to only update those parts of the page that change when paging, sorting or filtering the data. Additionally, we demonstrate how to attach triggers to controls embedded in other UpdatePanels elsewhere on the form.
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| Installing and Using Fiddler to Monitor Async Data Transfer |
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This video features Fiddler, a utility from Microsoft that allows you to watch the conversation between the client and the server. We demonstrate where to download it, how to install and configure it, then watch it work and explain the results that it captures from a real Atlas session.
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| Introduction to Atlas and Ajax |
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This video describes what Ajax is, how it works, and major frameworks that support this type of functionality. The we focus on Atlas, Microsoft's implementation of Ajax and a client side scripting API. We review the major parts of Atlas, its future, and where it fits into our application designs.
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| Introduction to the Atlas UpdatePanel |
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This video demonstrates the most basic use of the UpdatePanel, one of the most popular of the Atlas server controls, which allows you to update small portions of an ASP.NET web page.
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| Using the ScriptManager ErrorTemplate |
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This video demonstrated the use of the ErrorTemplate in the ScriptManager to provide a better error message to the user when problems arise on the Atlas web page.
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