Winter is here and so is ASP .NET Ajax RTM - Dylan's Ride Blog

Well, after several months of rain, greyness and wind, York has finally seen some snow. It's pretty rubbish snow, consisting of a dusting of snow, which soon vanished. It looked like there might have been a bit more on the hills. Under the snow was a nasty suprise. I was cycling to work on my very skinny-tyred fixed wheel bike, when suddenly the bike and I took off in different directions. Both the bike and myself were OK, but my trousers bore the brunt of the impact. Next day found me riding to work on something with a much thicker tyre. Nothing grips ice very well, but 2.1 trail rakers beat narrow road tyres everytime.

I was hoping for a nice ride or walk in the moors in deep snow. I'm not sure that's going to happen, which is a shame as riding is snow is great fun, and makes a nice change from the usual mud.

On a more geeky note, ASP .NET Ajax 1.0 (formerly know as 'Atlas') has shipped yesterday. I have updated this site to use the RTM version, rather than last month's RC version, and it looks like a no-brainer upgrade, unlike the previous . A few things worth noting:

• Validators. The release notes tell you to remove the references to the special Ajaxified version included in the package. If you do that, validation will not work in update panels. See Scott Gu's blog for more details on that one.
• Make sure you restart IIS, or the old scripts still get served and things don't go as you expect.