If you read my last post “First
experience with CSS friendly control adapters beta“ you might have realized
that I am referencing in my CSS file a http handler:

background:
url(../../PersistantImage.ashx?theme=Default&file=Rounded.gif)

I had the chance to realize that CSS friendly control adapters beta from the
ASP.NET Team was online for a short time and downloaded it, so I had the
pleasure to experience it a bit this evening.

By the way I recommend the reading of the White Paper, that is well
written.

At last TechEd in Amsterdam I was convinced by Aurel to switch the whole design of my community website Tech Head Brothers from tables formating to CSS. Aurelien shown me crazy stuff they are building in Wygwam using CSS and in 5 minutes I was convinced for that change. Now Aurel is kind of my mentor on that and also decided me to go the Atlas way. As I had decided to rewrite the site in ASP.NET 2, I also decided to switch to CSS.

My first experience with CSS was that it is really difficult to get it running on all browsers, but at the time of table I remember that I also had issues. The second problem I had was that lots of the ASP.NET controls are rendering with tables and the mix was not always good and even sometimes difficult to hack.

The application is written as a n-tier web application and
modeled with domain objects.

It uses those differents technologies:

This morning I was able to integrate Atlas in the new release under development of Tech Head Brothers. In less than a hour I had an UpdatePanel in the page that describes the differents authors of the site. Now when you click on the picture of an author the biography is shown without the full post back. And it is really really easy. I am also adding a tab to show all publication of the auhtor.

Congratulations to the Atlas Team!!! Great work.

As said in a past post: Yeah!!! :-)
Publications are working, I am working on the new publishing tool for my
website Tech Head Brothers, and
today I reached another milestone: The tool is now installed on Laurent
Duveau notebook and he is able to post directly from Word 2003.

This year edition of the French DevDays held in Toulouse the 30th March,
2006 was marked by the presence of 6 Tech Head Brothers authors as
speakers !!! Nice :-)

**Incredible **what you might do with javascript, I cannot
believe it. You made an awesome work Aurel.

I was renewed as Microsoft MVP in the category Visual Developer -
ASP/ASP.NET. Great!!!

Congratulations to Michel
Perfetti, that is now MVP Dev C#, and to all the other authors of Tech Head Brothers that get
renewed: