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Atlas June CTP Released
Microsoft has released a new Community Tech Preview (CTP) of Atlas, Microsoft's AJAX framework for ASP.NET. Note that Atlas can also be used with other web technoloogies such as PHP or ColdFusion via the Atlas client-script libraries.
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.NET Framework 3.0 June CTP is out
The June CTP of the .NET Framework 3.0 (formerly, WinFX) is now available for download. This is an update since the Beta 2 release, and is intended for use with Windows Vista build 5456. Note that there is no Go-Live license available for this release.
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Opinion: ASP.NET 2.0 makes it harder
Daniel Solin, faced with some limitations in ASP.NET 2.0 has blogged a criticism of the framework, concluding that "my feeling about ASP.NET 2.0 is that it's good for simple, common tasks. It makes trivial tasks even more trivial, but this at the cost of making the more complex (and more realistic) tasks even more complex."
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WinFX renamed to .NET Framework 3.0
Microsoft Corporate Vice-President S.Somasegar announced last week that WinFX would be renamed to the .NET Framework 3.0. "The .NET Framework has always been at the core of WinFX, but the WinFX brand didn't convey this."