Christian Beauclair gave a great overview of ATLAS (Microsoft’s AJAX framework for ASP.NET 2.0). Christian differentiated between the classic post back paradigm and the AJAXian capabilities that can be achieved through ATLAS. I felt the presentation was a little simplistic, but understand that it was intended to give a broad overview of ATLAS and AJAX.

Christian is an excellent speaker I plan on attending more of his events.

Continue reading more here: Points of Interest: AJAX and ASP.NET "Atlas" - Developer Night in Canada User Group Tour

Related links:

Canadian Developers on MSDN
ATLAS (AJAX for ASP.NET 2.0)
AJAX.NET (AJAX for ASP.NET 1.1 and ASP.NET 2.0)
What is AJAX

See AJAX / ATLAS in work on my Reviews page: http://adam.kahtava.com/professionalDev/reviews/