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ASP.NET AJAX Released! by MichaelF on February 01, 2007 06:34PM

I wanted to take a moment to let the Port 25 community that Microsoft has officially released ASP.NET AJAX to the web under the Microsoft Permissive License (Ms-PL).  Under this release developers are free to modify the Microsoft AJAX Library Scripts and can distribute derivative works per the terms of the Ms-PL.  

 As part of the release some improvements have been made:

  • Performance and scalability have been improved for shared hosting scenarios
  • Globalization fixes to ScriptManager and ScriptResource handler to support date and number parsing and UI culture fallback

This week we also released the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions source code under the Microsoft Reference License (Ms-RL).  This release was intended to help the community with debugging, maintenance and interoperability challenges with the additional hope that the transparency helps establish better coding patterns and guidelines.

You can find ASP.NET AJAX here.

Check back tomorrow when we'll post an interview with Steve Marx, Technical Evangelist for ASP.NET AJAX who talks about the release and shows us a demonstration of the technology.

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  1. Port 25 said:

    Following up on our post yesterday here is an interview with ASP.NET Technical Evangelist: Steve Marx. Steve discusses the three components of ASP.NET AJAX and shows us a demo of the software formerly known as ATLAS running on top of PHP on Linux to demonstrate

    posted at 04:37PM 02/02/2007
  2. Wesley Parish said:

    I've been trying to find the specific details of the specific alterations, enhancements, etc, of the Microsoft Permissive License used in the ASP.NET Ajax release.

    The last release under the MsPL I took notice of, was the MS WinCE 6.0 release, and I was disappointed that the Ms-PL version used, had several extensions, etc, that destroyed its value, as far as I was concerned, as a study tool.  To wit, the patent statements and the non-commercial statements.

    I would be interested in the ASP.NET Ajax to test under Linux and Mono; but without the clear statement that the Ms-PL as used, contains no hidden gotchas, I would be wasting my time.

    (Oh, and SIGN IN doesn't work any more under konqueror.  I'm using Mandriva 2007 running kde 3.5.4, konqueror 3.5.4; I switched to Firefox to sign-in.)

    posted at 06:48AM 02/04/2007
  3. MichaelF said:

    Wesley:  The license for ASP.NET AJAX, in its entirety can be found here:  <http://ajax.asp.net/downloads/library/default.aspx?tabid=47&subtabid=471>  

    IANAL, but there don't appear to be any gotchas.

    We'll look into the Konqueror issue, thanks for the head's up.

    posted at 12:09PM 02/05/2007
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