Time's up! Gaia Ajax 3.6 Alpha Released!

by Jan Blomquist 13. September 2009 21:01

Thank you for your patience and continued belief in our product. It is our vision to bring you the finest quality for ajax development on the ASP.NET platform. The 3.6 version comes with practical innovation previously unavailable to ASP.NET developers. Hopefully it will bring "goosebumps" similar to the ones we had the first time Microsoft unveiled ASP.NET almost a decade ago.

"3.6 is backwards compatible and introduces a paradigm shift called adaptive rendering"

Links and downloads

Click here to download Gaia Ajax 3.6 "alpha"
Exe with Visual Studio Integration 30 day trial
Click here to download Gaia Ajax 3.6 "alpha" - Tar.gz binaries + source - for open source projects
Click here to download Gaia Ajax 3.6 "alpha" commercial (requires subscription)

Highlights from the Gaia Ajax 3.6 release

1. Adaptive Rendering
Adaptive Rendering is a mind-blowing concept that enables dynamic insertion, removal, moving and replacement of individual controls. The concept has far reaching implications and is the breakthrough technology that will make you hunger for Gaia as the building blocks for your UI layer

Click here for a sample that demonstrates dynamic inserts and removals of controls and compare it to the usage of traditional partial rendering
Click here for a sample of the chess game featuring dynamic control moves
Click here for a sample of our "PageFlakes" sample that also features dynamic moves
Click here to check out a sample that demonstrates all features of adaptive rendering, including control replacements via databinding

Jan Blomquist has written an extensive review of Adaptive Rendering on his personal blog.

2. Ajax GridView
The Gaia Ajax GridView is a premier example of adaptive rendering as it enables the worlds most advanced GridView for ASP.NET without much code at all. The GridView still supports all the operations like ( filtering, sorting, selection, deletions, updates, etc ) and it's all ajaxified thanks to adaptive rendering.

Click here for a sample that demonstrates the Gaia Ajax GridView in action

3. 100++ new Samples!
In the package you will find a total of 128 samples ranging from minimalistic ones to extensive, almost full applications in themselves. This is all packaged into a new samples framework that simplifies navigation, code view, VB.NET code availability, etc.