B# .NET Blog

Yoehoe! Check out www.asp.net/whidbey to see some of the great features in ASP.NET v2.0 (currently in an alpha stadium). There are really a lot of cool features out there, visit Rob's blog on http://weblogs.asp.net/rhoward to get regular updates and a sneak preview of the great ASP.NET Cache Database Invalidation feature...

Some of the great new features:

• Concept of master pages
• Cache invalidation with databases
• A bunch of new controls such as Treeview, FileUpload, Wizard, ImageMap, BulletedList and so much more
• Dynamic images using the .asix handler and asp:DynamicImage
• New forms authentication building blocks (control to reset forgotten passwords and so on)
• Visual Studio .NET “ Whidbey“ enhancements:
  • Built-in webserver based on “Cassini“ (cf. ASP.NET Web Matrix)
  • Build apps without FPSE (just in a local folder)
  • Support for code-behind as well as embedded script
  • IntelliSense everywhere, also in script blocks (<% ... %>)
  • Web site publishing
  • Editing of FTP sites
• Better mobile support
• Browser validation support
• Better .NET Framework with support for ACLs etc
• Avoid a slow first time request (precompilation)
• Configuration tool to add users/roles, datasources, personalisation features once a site is released.
• Navigation with sitemaps (based on XML) and SiteMapPath control

Already experimenting with Whidbey on my machine... Enjoy the bits and bytes quite soon :)