Keyvan Nayyeri

First of all, this is an interesting change in Microsoft naming convention for its products. Previously they were using Community Technology Preview (CTP) for the early product versions but recently they’ve switched to simple Preview name which is better and more understandable. After ASP.NET MVC Previews, now it’s ASP.NET AJAX’s turn to come in with its Previews.

As Bertrand Le Roy has written on his blog, ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 Preview 1 is out and public and you can download it from ASP.NET workspace on CodePlex.

This is a new step toward ASP.NET AJAX roadmap and seems to be a good step. Here are a few new features included in the ASP.NET AJAX:

• Client-side template rendering
• Declarative instantiation of behaviors and controls
• DataView control
• Markup extensions
• Bindings

I’m interested to know more about DataView control and Bindings. They seem to be helpful new features. It’s time to get my hands on some new stuff!