Boschmans David's Weblog This book introduces a fast track way of understanding Atlas, and how this technology can increase the power and functionality of your code while conserving time and effort. The book begins with a bare-bones introduction that explains how Atlas relates to Ajax. Microsoft Atlas is a web-client framework that makes building Ajax-style applications easier. Atlas also provides you with a standard object model and debugging to make development faster and simpler. Ajax is new way of combining multiple web technologies including JavaScript, dynamic HTML, and a feature known as XMLHTTP (which reduces the need for the browser client to always go back to the server every time new information is downloaded). But at this moment, people developing with Ajax have to write their code from the bottom up, a complex and time consuming. Book guide you through a series of practical examples showing the Atlas framework and available controls. After reading this book, you will be able to compile a seamless Atlas-based applications on your own! In anticipation of changes during the development of the Atlas technology, updated source code posted for download on, www.philotic.com blog author / blog.