How This Book Is Organized
Chapter 1, Atlas, Ajax, and ASP.NET , gives a high-level overview of Ajax and the Atlas framework and then covers the installation of Atlas, a review of its structure, and a first simple example.
Chapter 2, JavaScript , is a concise introduction to JavaScript. Although Atlas does its best to hide the details from ASP.NET programmers, a certain knowledge of JavaScript is required to really master Atlas.
Chapter 3, Ajax , explains the technologies beyond the hype. You learn what happens in the background, how Ajax works, and what it really is all about, in fewer than 20 pages.
Chapter 4, Controls , describes the client-side controls that come with Atlas. These make accessing HTML elements from JavaScript easy, using a consistent API.
Chapter 5, Data Binding and Validation , covers how you can perform declarative data binding, meaning that you can program without having to write code. It also features Atlas client-side validation controls.
Chapter 6, Components and Behaviors , shows you the built-in behaviors of Atlas and how to attach their functionality to client-side controls and components.
Chapter 7, Animations , focuses on graphical effects you can implement with Atlas, including opacity animations and automatic positioning of page elements.
Chapter 8, Client Script Library , describes how Atlas enriches the functionality of client-side JavaScript by adding new OOP-like features and even reimplementing some classes of the .NET Framework so that they ...