Two exciting pieces of news:
- A new CTP is available for ASP. NET atlas.
- A new release of the Atlas Control Toolkit is up.
What's new in the July CTP release?
Updatepanel and scriptmanager:
- Scriptmanager. registercontrol () takes optional parameter to specify client type to create.
- Fix for updatepanels in Firefox.
Drag and Drop:
- Added public dragstart/dragend events to dragdropmanager.
- Dragstart fires with dragmode, ype, and data as eventargs.
- Dragstop fires with empty eventargs.
- Style. Position of draglocks als will no longer default to "absolute ".
- Dragdropmanager do longers disposes droptargets when unregistering them.
- Floatingbehavior now unregisters itself on dispose.
"Atlas" Control Toolkit
Release Notes
Version 1.0.60731.0
New controls (see sample pages on left ):
- Dynamicpopulate: (Re-) populates any element with HTML content downloaded from the server.
- Filteredtextbox: Prevents unwanted characters from being typed into a text box.
- Pagingbulletedlist: Adds flexible paging and sorting to any bulleted list.
- Passwordstrength: Provides interactive feedback about the strength of a password being created.
- Rating: Displays a "4 out of 5 stars" interface for ranking.
General notes:
- Updated to include/support the "Atlas" July CTP release
- Added support for data binding in extender properties declarations-see other neat stuff for details
- Changed Atlas control registration behavior to better enable multiple extenders to hook up to the same element (example: Atlas's AutoComplete and Toolkit's textboxwatermark)
- Added getcurrentstyle and getinheritedbackgroundcolor helpers to commontoolkitscripts object in common. js to isolate the relevant browser-specific code
- Modified alwaysvisiblecontrol to use CSS "position: fixed" style on browsers that support it
- Enabled autopostback scenario for cascadingdropdown dropdownlists so that a submit button is no longer necessary
- Added "loadingtext" property to cascadingdropdown for specifying the text to display as the dropdownlist populates from the server
- Changed dropshadow to match the visibility state of its target
- Added reorderlist support for Array and ilist data sources
- Changed reorderlist to use callbacks instead of postbacks for a more seamless User Experience
- Simplified reorderlist hook-up process to make it even easier to use
- Added roundedcorners support for hooking up to elements with "width = x %"
- Added get_text and set_text methods to textboxwatermark to support client-side script access to the text in a watermarked text box
- Improved automated testing coverage
- Added debug mode to automated test framework to make it easier to identify exceptions
- Added support for firing Keyboard Events to automatic test framework
- Removed double-encoding of script references in generated XML script
- Other minor improvements throughout
