The second session was by pratibha on Asp.Net ATLAS.
She generally talked about what is AJAX in general and what is ATLAS framework?

AJAX - client side scripting model. One new thing that i heard is that Outlook web access by itself makes use of xmlHttprequest objects.

ATLAS- its the Microsoft Asp.Net based framework for AJAX programming. It has a set of client side scripting controls and server side scripting controls.

She described more on what are client side models and what are server side scripting models.

Some new things that i heard are:

1. www.live.com is not based on ATLAS. its a mixture of ATLAS and hard core AJAX java scripting.

2. You should not put every functionality as a AJAX one , since this is going to increase the processing in the client machine. (yep here my prediction in my earlier post Why i dont like AJAX is validated).

it was a great session indeeed and i learnt a lot.