asp.net 2.0 includes wizards and controls that allow you to perform frequent tasks (for instance, data access) without having to write a single line of code. Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 includes designers to layout and configure complex pages with data-bound tables. As a developer, you can use the wizards to work faster and smarter.
asp.net 2.0 also leverages changes in the Microsoft .NET Framework. In particular, the partial class concept is particularly useful for ASP.NET developers. A partial class lets you write part of the code and lets the ASP.NET compiler write the rest when necessary. You no longer have to see boilerplate code, nor do you have to write any of it.
asp.net 2.0 includes built-in controls to help you manage user accounts and personalize the content and layout of pages in your application. First, the membership service lets you track users. The new login controls integrate with the membership service to allow you to automate account creation and user login without writing any code. The new Web Parts feature allows you to create Web applications that contain sub-panels known as web Parts. Users can select and customize the parts that are displayed on a Web page as they see fit. Finally, the Profile service provides long-term persistence of user preferences and data through declarative XML configuration.
asp.net 2.0 includes master pages, themes, and skins to build applications with a consistent page layout and design. These new features are easy to implement and modify, and greatly enhance the manageability and maintainability of large applications.
many of the new features in ASP.NET 2.0 are aimed specifically at addressing these goals. Throughout the rest of the paper, we will look at individual technologies and see how ASP.NET 2.0 builds on ASP.NET 1.x to provide a powerful Web application development platform.
if you have ASP.NET 1.x applications in production, you will be relieved to know that ASP.NET 2.0 is fully backwards compatible. That is, your ASP.NET 1.x applications will run as normal on ASP.NET 2.0 without any changes. However, you will notice many changes when you upgrade to Visual Studio 2005. In particular, the default development model for ASP.NET pages has changed. In addition, with ASP.NET 2.0, you will have a variety of new compilation and deployment options. All of these changes will be discussed in detail in the following sections.
the fundamental architecture of ASP.NET has always been designed for flexibility and extensibility. ASP.NET 2.0 continues this tradition by incorporating a new provider model to support many of the new features. New utilities and API''s have been added to improve site maintenance and improve configuration. All of these changes are designed to make developing ASP.NET 2.0 applications a faster and more str
