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First "Second Encounter" With Atlas

I’ve always loved the “Hands on” way of playing with new technology and software. Download it, code with it, take it for a ride, and see how things go. Read the manuals when you get stuck and then move on! It’s often the best use of Saturday afternoons when you’re too tired to read a lot of text books or manuals, and too enthusiastic to waste the entire afternoon watching TV.

I had taken the same approach with Atlas when the very early CTP versions were released, and realized that if I didn’t have four hours of reading time, I was going to fall flat on my face. Apparently, Atlas wasn’t as “developer friendly” as other Microsoft products, and understandably so. It was a very early community preview release which wasn’t expected to be perfect in any way!

This week I had been reading a few blog entries, and they seemed to suggest that Atlas was maturing fast and it was time when you could actually do things with it without having to spend hours and hours reading manuals. I decided to take the same “Hands on” approach to see how much things had changed since my last encounter with Atlas.

This time, my focus was to download Atlas and take it for a test ride with a simple Hello World program. This article is more a blog post of my experiences, and an attempt to share what I learnt on a holiday, with everyone else.

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