Atlas Wiki Application Status

In a few other posts I've read that the Wiki application was hidden on the atlas website because it wasn'tcompatible with the newest release of atlas. I was going to checkout out the wiki mostly for learning purposes (i bought Foundations of Atlas - and most of Chapt 7 is about the Wiki app). But i don't want to crack open the Wiki code if much of it is out of date and/or no longer supported.

I have heard "we will update the Wiki in a future release" - what is the status of these efforts? I would wait if a release was expected soon or if someone has already updated the wiki app.

What were the fundamental problems with the Wiki app and the latest version of atlas? A few minor changes in code syntax or major architectural issues? I'm trying to avoid making the same programming mistakes myself.

Any information or direction is appreciated - Thanks in advance for your response,

J. Shane Kunkle

Hey,

I purchased that book too and was looking for the wiki, i never did actually find it. Also, after attempting to work through many of those examples found in the book i found that the majority didn't work with the July version of Atlas that I have installed. Were you able to find updated examples online?

Thanks,

Kas

I found a download to the wiki application here -http://forums.asp.net/thread/1241581.aspx

The author does have some errata and updated code from chapters 3 & 5 on his blog -http://www.philotic.com/blog/?cat=3. Unfortunately i've still found a few problems with the latest code he has posted in his blog. I've also found a number of examples in Chapt 7 that do not run properly which he has not addressed in his blog yet (has no one else got to Chapt 7 yet? - j/k).

So after hours of debugging code from that book the last few nights I figured i would post my original question here - and try to see what i was getting myself into before crack open the wiki code – and possibly spend many more hours more debugging code.

Hi jkunkle:

Can you be more specific about the problems you've found? I'd be happy to post fixes and blog them.

Laurence

(Author of 'Foundations of Atlas')

Atlas VSI installer error: String cannot have zero length

Hi,

I downloaded the January CTP release/vsi installer. When I double click ASPNETAtlas.vsi I get the following dialog box error:

*************
A problem occured while running the installer. Please contact the content author for problems with content.

Error message:
String cannot have zero length
*************

Any advice would be appreciated.

I've seen several posts related to different install errors using the .vsi installer, most of these errors appear to be caused because of different combinations of the ATLAS releases and the .NET/VS 2005 versions. My recommendation is that if you can't get to install it succesfully, the installer only adds a "project template", so instead, if you're able to extract the contents of the .vsi file there are 2 zip files, each containing the project files you need for either C# or VB .NET, you can use either zip file as your project "template".
Thanks. Still no luck. Tried renaming .vsi to .zip and still cannot read or view the contents. Tried on two seperate PCs and no luck. Are there any other .vsi viewer/extractor tools? I wish Microsoft would offer a zip version in addition to the vsi. Sounds like vsi is a mixed bag at best. Leaves the rest of us out of luck.
Yeah, I don't think the .vsi is really a zip file, however if you were able to launch it, there is an option to view files in Windows Explorer, which will show you the 2 zip files and a .vscontent file. I have a copy of these files, if you provide me a contact e-mail I can send them over.
Tried Windows Explorer and didn't find any option to view the contents of a VSI file.
I am having this same issue and cannot find a way to open the VSI. Windows Explorer doesn't allow me to do that.
If you're not able to launch the .VSI, then you will not see the "View Files in Windows Explorer" option. Nevertheless theMarch release is out, and this comes in the form of a .msi installer, so you may have better luck with this...

Atlas to Ajax 1.0 Upgrade Nightmare

I am trying to upgrade my website from the Atlas release to Ajax 1.0 and can't seem to get it working.

I have removed all references to Atlas from my pages and my Web.Config file. I then added the asp:ScriptManager and asp:UpdatePanel from scratch. However, now no matter what I try I get a full page refresh. Here is a snippet of my code, I'm hoping I just left something out and that someone picks it up:

<asp:ScriptManagerID="ScriptManager1"runat="server"></asp:ScriptManager>

<asp:UpdatePanelID="UpdatePanel1"runat="server">
<ContentTemplate>
<asp:DropDownListID="City"runat="server"SkinID="RegularDropDown"><asp:ListItemValue=""Text="City/Town"/></asp:DropDownList>
</ContentTemplate>
<Triggers>
<asp:AsyncPostBackTriggerControlID="County"EventName="SelectedIndexChanged"/>
</Triggers>
</asp:UpdatePanel>

Here is a snippet from my Web.Config file:

<pages>

<controls>
<addtagPrefix="asp"namespace="System.Web.UI"assembly="System.Web.Extensions, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"/>
</controls>
</pages>
<compilationdebug="true">
<assemblies>
<addassembly="System.Design, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A"/>
<addassembly="System.Windows.Forms, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089"/>
<addassembly="System.Web.Extensions, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/>
</assemblies>
</compilation>

Thanks in advance for any help,
Russ

Hi Zero,

Three things worth checking:

1 - Is theAsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID supposed to be 'Country' or 'County'.

2 - Have you tried setting the UpdateMode property of the UpdatePanel?

3 - Have you removed the following line from the top of your page:
<%@.RegisterAssembly="Microsoft.Web.Atlas"Namespace="Microsoft.Web.UI"TagPrefix="atlas" %>

Not sure if these are the source of your problem but can't hurt to try.

Good Luck,
DJH

Hi Russ,

Here is a link which describes the things to do when you are converting from an Atlas project to an Ajax project:

http://ajax.asp.net/documentation/Migration_Guide_CTP_to_RTM.aspx

Hope this helps!

Regards,

Exactly what I needed, thank you for the link to the migration guide.

I just used the new Web.Config file and copied my variables over to it and it seemed to fix the problem.

Thanks again,
Russ

Atlas RTM Date?

Can someone please tell me the likely Atlas release schedule?

Will it look something like this?

1. March CTP - 3/20
2. April CTP - 4/10
3. June CTP - ?
4. Beta 1 - July?
5. Beta 2 - Sept?
6. RTM - Nov? (part Vista/.Net 3.0 launch)

I wish we had a nice timetable. I've already finished our project, but the managers don't want to release it until we've got the final version of Atlas so that we're not scambling to adapt our current code to rtm and that we're sure any bugs we might find on non-ie browsers are related to our stuff and not atlas.

I hate projects that I've put hard work into sitting on the bench.

Brad Abrams gave a development roadmap during this mix06 session:
http://sessions.mix06.com/view.asp?pid=NGW052

He said there will be an update every 6 to 8 weeks with compatiblility release in Q4-06 and RTM with Orcas in 2007.

Likely schedule:
1. March CTP - 3/20
2. April CTP - 4/10
3. June CTP - TBD
4. August CTP - TBD
5. October Beta 1 - TBD
6. November Beta 2 - Compatibility Release
7. RTM - Mid 2007 with Visual Studio 2007 "Orcas"

Hi, you can find the ATLAS roadmap here, it's not too far to get released.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/09/11/_2200_Atlas_2200_-1.0-Naming-and-Roadmap.aspx

Thanks

- Gurpiar.

Atlas Release Date??

I am currently using Atlas at work to investigate how it could be used within our products.

I have managed to develop a site using the latest CTP and now need to know when the Atlas framework is due to come out of beta and be fully released?

I know that you are allowed to use the current CTP for actual websites, its just does anyone have any idea on the official release date of the Atlas framework?

thanks

Stuart

See this thread:http://forums.asp.net/thread/1333630.aspx

Ryan

ATLAS release date

Does anybody know when atlas will actuallygo live (production ready)? I really need to know this since i amworking on a major release which heavily relies on atlas framework.

TIA
Murali
Can somebody please throw some light on this issue?

Many thanks
Murali

ATLAS RC and AJAX 1.0

Hi

If I were to install the new full version of AJAX on my server, would applications that depend on the old release candidate still run okay, or would the install remove the older version?

Many thanks

Darren

There have been lots of changes since atlas. Its like that it wont run but it also depends on what methods or properties u are using.

I would suggest keep your old DLL's in the Bin folder of your old applications and add the ajax 1.0 DLL for your newer applications. This way each application uses its own version of Ajax DLL's.

Dont forget to uninstall Atlas on the server because your application will pick up the DLL's from the GAC rather than the Bin folder.

In the end I just updated everything and published - no problems encountered :)

Sorry for the late reply, I didn't think anybody had replied... but that's because I didn't have e-mail notifications on!

Doh!

Regards

Darren

Atlas production release date

Hi

We are planning to use Atlas framework for our new project which involves getting quotes from a rate server in forex market.
As we see we have only a beta version of Atlas and not a production release.
We are awaiting for the release date of Atlas while our project schedule is crushing us. We would like to know the approximate production release date for Atlas.

Can any one of you gives us an approximate production release date for Atlas?

Thanks in advance

Siva

On the DevDays2006 (8 march 2006 - Amsterdam - The Netherlands) Scott Guthrie told the crowd that the go-live license will be out within 30 day's or so...

Cheers,

Wes

Wes

Thanks for the information

Siva

im waiting for the official release

i work in a lotof really beautiful projects with this pre-release of "ATLAS" and its amazing ...

thanks ...

PD:sorry my bad english

Hey All -

We're planning on releasing our online product in July/August timeframe. We won't be able to use Atlas unless it's a full release. Is there any info or hints as to when it may be released?

Thanks in advance,
John

Hi John,

The Go-Live version of Atlas is available now (the March CTP drop is the first one that supports production deployments). All releases of Atlas from now on will continue to support go-live deployments.

Hope this helps,

Scott

Hey Scott,

Thanks for the reply. I've tried to push the go-live on the CTPs, but the powers-that-be won't let us release with our product using CTP/beta products. What I was looking for is more of a hint on when Atlas may be RTMed, since we couldn't release with it before that.

Thanks again,
John

Hi,

We have a similar situation as John. We won't be able to release our product using CTP/beta products. Could you provide us with some information on when Atlas would be released. I keep hearing rumours that it would get shipped with Orcas. But, again I don't know when Orcas will be released.

Thanks,

MR.

Hi MR,

We are looking to potentially ship Atlas before Orcas (later this year). We haven't finalized or announced any dates yet -- but stay tuned as this is something we'll look to do over the next few weeks.

Thanks,

Scott

Hey,

Any more decisions made on the RTM release date of ASP.NET AJAX (Atlas)?

Hi Brian,

I blogged about our 1.0 release plans recently here:http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/09/11/_2200_Atlas_2200_-1.0-Naming-and-Roadmap.aspx

Hope this helps,

Scott

I had, I guess still "have", been loving Atlas and the functionality it has promised, but it's still been getting increasingly buggy (for instance,this new one) as I use it more and more that there is no way I am comformatable releasing an Atlas-based website to our customers at this time...

I totally understand that while it's "go live" right now that it is still "beta" (or whatever the new term is), I just hope between now and official release that it's a lot more stable

Ah well, i'll be keeping my fingers crossed and hopes up

hello.

where and when does that error happen? i've used 2 or 3 controls of the toolkit and haven't got any errors till now. any chance of building a small demo project that reproduces this?

(you can email me if you want)

Scott,

Thanks for the reply. That helps a lot.