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What's New in ASP.NET

  The Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 includes significant enhancements to ASP.NET in virtually all areas. ASP.NET has been improved to provide out-of-the-box support for the most common Web application situations. You will find that you can get Web sites and pages up and running more easily and with less code than ever before. At the same time, you can add custom features to ASP.NET to accommodate your own requirements. Specific areas in which ASP.NET has been improved are: Productivity. You can easily and quickly create ASP.NET Web pages and applications using new ASP.NET server controls and existing controls with new features. New areas such as membership, personalization, and themes provide system-level functionality that would normally require extensive developer coding. Core development scenarios, particularly data, have been addressed by new data controls, no-code binding, and smart data-display controls. Flexibility and extensibili

ASP.NET Overview

ASP.NET is a unified Web development model that includes the services necessary for you to build enterprise-class Web applications with a minimum of coding. ASP.NET is part of the .NET Framework, and when coding ASP.NET applications you have access to classes in the .NET Framework. You can code your applications in any language compatible with the common language runtime (CLR), including Microsoft Visual Basic, C#, JScript .NET, and J#. These languages enable you to develop ASP.NET applications that benefit from the common language runtime, type safety, inheritance, and so on. ASP.NET includes: A page and controls framework The ASP.NET compiler Security infrastructure State-management facilities Application configuration Health monitoring and performance features Debugging support An XML Web services framework Extensible hosting environment and application life cycle management An extensible designer envir

What's New in Visual Studio 2008

What's New in Visual Studio 2008 This topic contains information about some of the new features and enhancements in Visual Studio 2008. For a comprehensive list of new features, see An Overview of Visual Studio . Topic Contents Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Settings Migration Community Components Community and Help Menus Window Management Class Designer Projects and Solutions Web Application Projects Project Designer Deployment Editing New Design View and CSS Design Tools IntelliSense for Jscript and ASP.NET AJAX Object Browser and Find Symbol Support for Multi-targeting WPF Designer Data Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) Reporting New Report Projects Report Wizard Expression Editor Enhanc

Improve Application Life-Cycle Management (ALM)

In Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft is continuing to invest in the market-leading Visual Studio Team System technology. Visual Studio 2008 provides great support for not only managing the entire software development life cycle but also the critical interaction with the final users and managers of an enterprise application. In addition, it is designed to expand the collaborative benefits of the Visual Studio Team System to more roles on the project team. By addressing the needs of a wide range of customers, from the smallest independent developers to the largest enterprise customers, Visual Studio 2008 will make delivering quality solutions easy regardless of the size of the project or team. With this release the new capabilities include: ·          Integrate the database professional into the software life cycle o    Creating off-line database representations and database projects brings the database professional into the development life cycle. Visual Studio 2008 prov

Better Developer Experience

Visual Studio 2008 builds on the productivity and developer experience improvements delivered in Visual Studio 2005. The development process used to create Visual Studio 2008 enabled the individual feature teams to focus on the final quality of the feature throughout the entire development process. This approach raises the overall product quality significantly. In addition, the overall developer experience with the Visual Studio 2008 is improved through the ability of Visual Studio to build and target all the platforms that developers have been using in their projects over the last few years. This enables development teams to adopt Visual Studio 2008 without a corresponding IT cost in deploying new framework components. Developer experience includes: ·          Build using Visual Studio 2008, target different .NET Framework platforms o    Developers have traditionally required tools that are bound to the runtime platform that they are building against. With Visual Stud