ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 RC Released

by Nate on December 28, 2006

The Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX development team released their first (and they say, only) release candidate yesterday on December 15th. Here’s the announcement.

They have also updated the AJAX Control Toolkit – a collection of ASP.NET AJAX-enabled controls – and made it available for download on CodePlex.

I’ve written a couple of times about my experiences with the ASP.NET AJAX extensions, and know that I will continue to use them in my web apps. Overall, I have been impressed with the speed of development on this project and the number of feature enhancements and issues addressed over the last several months. I do, however, look forward to that final release, as it’ll be nice to stop worrying about upgrading my applications for each new release (I know, I know, my fault for using pre-production software).

On a slightly different, but related, note: I briefly mentioned Microsoft’s release of Visual Studio 2005 SP1 last week. I didn’t, however, have time to really dive into the changes that SP1 brought to the IDE (Visual Studio, all editions, and Visual Web Developer). Over the last week, though, I’ve noticed a major improvement that warrants mention, especially to ASP.NET AJAX developers; much improved Intellisense support for the ASP.NET AJAX extensions!

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1 Morten December 28, 2006 at 11:57 pm

Yesterday? The announcement is from december 15.

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2 Nate December 29, 2006 at 12:06 am

Oops! Got me.

I could’ve sworn that one of the announcements was just dated yesterday, though. Anyways, I updated the post to correct the error.

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3 Medved September 1, 2007 at 3:35 am

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