I just found out from Scott Guthrie’s blog that ASP.Net AJAX 1.0 has just shipped. There’s been talk about Atlas and CTP versions of this thing floating around for some time now, but it’s nice to see the final version shipping and so much industry support. The whole AJAX initiative makes things much more responsive for end-users and frees developers from browser-specific issues leaving them to focus on real functionality.
Now that Atlas is shipping, it’s scheduled to be part of Orcas (which you can already download as a CTP) which will support client-side JavaScript intellisense, JavaScript compilation checking, and rich JavaScript debugging support for ASP.NET AJAX scenarios. Read more about it on ScottGu’s blog.