ASP.NET Ajax Released

darrenkopp writes "Microsoft released their anticipated AJAX framework that integrates with their ASP.NET product .It is a fully supported product (24x7 phone support), but is completely free! They are releasing the source for it as well."

Wow, that's amazing...

[Schraegstrichpunkt]

... how innovative of them!

Too many layers!

[Anonymous Coward]

On a client-side Windows system, we have the JavaScript for the AJAX functionality running in the browser. The browser itself, depending on which one is being used, may be running on top of .NET 2.0. .NET is then running on top of the userland Windows subsystems. The userland subsystems are running on top of the NT kernel. The NT kernel is then running on hardware.

The server side isn't much better. We have an ASP.NET application running on .NET. .NET is running on the userland Windows subsystems. These subsystems are running on the NT kernel. The NT kernel is then running on hardware.

We keep seeing layer upon layer being added. While this may make things easier for developers, the resulting application stacks end up consuming much in the way of system resources, both for clients and servers. I find we're also losing reliability as we go higher in the stack. AJAX applications and ASP.NET are highly prone to failure. Web browsers are known to crash easily enough. At least the NT kernel is becoming somewhat stable these days.

It's Good Stuff

[Unoti]

Say what you will about it, but it works really well. It's a fast easy way to develop AJAX pages: Visual Studio with Atlas. Of course, it's how Lord Vader would develop software, but it's still good stuff.

Re:Too many layers!

[SurturZ]

It's like parfait. Who doesn't like parfait?

Re:dont bash it before you tried it

[mollymoo]

I cant believe it, 99% of the comments are negative

Oh come on, stop exaggerating. At the time of writing, there are a total of 14 comments in this story. I can't find the 1/7th of one comment which you claim was not negative.

Re:Too many layers!

[nacturation]

The server side isn't much better. We have an ASP.NET application running on .NET. .NET is running on the userland Windows subsystems. These subsystems are running on the NT kernel. The NT kernel is then running on hardware.

It gets worse. That hardware is running on electricity. Electricity is running often on fossil fuels. Those fossil fuels are running on dinosaurs. Those dinosaurs run on other dinosaurs and vegetation. The vegetation runs on nutrients and photosynthesis. Photosynthesis runs on solar energy. Solar energy is powered by the Sun.

And I'm not sure what Sun had to do with the .NET framework.
 

Re:Wow, that's amazing...

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Re:Too many layers!

[WED Fan]

That's Al Gore's next target. He's afraid the Earth, and most notably, the U.S. is using too much Sun. Apparently, we are using so much Sun that it is causing it to overheat. This is causing not only the Earth to heat up, but Mars as well.

"If we continue to use the Sun as much as we are, it's going to burn out. Where are we going to be then?" Gore further went on to say, "If there is life on Mars, and I'm convinced of the possiblity, we may be killing it. The eco-system of Mars is very delicate and life there is used to existing in the conditions that have existed for eons. Our over use of the Sun may just kill our neigbors. Katrina was nothing compared to what might happen to Mars. Now, let's move onto the superstorms we are causing on Jupiter..."

Scientists around the world were quick to support Gore's statements, "While we are still working on his claims that we are overusing the Sun, and we can't be sure that aliens aren't manipulating its coronasphere, we recommend a complete halt to Sun usage, just to be safe. After all, what would it hurt?" The Scientists around the world are funded by the non-partisan "Special Interest Lobby Who Believe America and Capitalism Are Ruining the World and Besides We Just Want Everybody to Be Communist" (SILWBACARWBWJWEBC) and are involved with the equally non-partisan "Study to Prove We Are Using Too Much Sun and America is to Blame Because They Use More Than Anyone and Even Save It for Daylight Savings Time" (SPWAUTMSABBTUMTAESIDST).