Atlas 学习之003：New Atlas CTP and new release of the Atlas Control Toolkit!

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, dataType, and data as eventArgs.
• dragStop fires with empty eventArgs.
• style.position of dragVisuals 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 automated test framework
• Removed double-encoding of script references in generated XML Script
• Other minor improvements throughout