So before I spent all my time playing with BizTalk and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) - I used to do quite a bit of ASP.NET (there are even a few old ASP.NET posts laying around on my blog :)). Before that of course I used to do ASP/COM. I joke that I started learning about and teaching AJAX back in 1999 (thanks to the brilliance of John Lam ). I looked at Atlas a little last fall, but never got into it very deeply. I decided to play with it over the weekend, and I have to say - I am really really impressed. I decide to tackle what I thought would be a pretty interesting application - hosting the WF designer in an HTML only - AJAX based application. I had already done the code to get images to be generated from the Workflow Designer on the server instead of hosting the designer in a browser as a control (see http://www.masteringbiztalk.com/blogs/jon/PermaLink,guid,28601754-c305-4597-a0a6-48f32be1eddb.aspx ). So I built a little teaser avi of the functionality. Sorry no code yet - it needs some work before it is ready for public consumption - but even at this point I have to say I think it looks pretty cool . I think building a real design app around it will be possible. So you can download the avi of my Windows Workflow Foundation - AJAX based designer application built with Atlas here - go ahead its only 411k ;-) . I'd post images - but I've posted too many of them lately. Hopefully I'll have time to get it done before TechEd next week. Anyone who is coming to TechEd - stop
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