Breakfast: Microsoft's "A Tour of Atlas"
Tuesday, August 15, 8:00-8:45 AM
by G. Andrew Duthie and David Shadle
"Atlas" is a free framework for building a new generation of richer, more interactive, highly personalized standards based Web applications. In this session, we will explain how Atlas allows you to easily build cross-browser applications that are very responsive to the user, provide a rich experience and allows you integrate client script features with the server side features of ASP.NET. We will demonstrate how existing applications can easily take advantage of "Atlas" features, how to build mash-ups and how you can extend "Atlas" to build Gadgets that can be hosted on Live.com.
About G. Andrew Duthie
G. Andrew Duthie, aka .net DEvHammer, is the .net Developer Evangelist for Microsoft's Mid-Atlantic States district, where he provides support and education for developers working with the .net development platform. In addition to his work with Microsoft, Andrew is the author of several books on ASP.NET and web development, and has spoken at numerous industry conferences from VSLive! and ASP.NET Connections, to Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference (PDC) and Tech-Ed.