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Saturday, June 7, 2008

ASP.NET - Version Information

Date

Version

Remarks

New features

January 16, 2002

1.0

First version

released together with Visual Studio .NET

  • Object oriented web application development supporting Inheritance, Polymorphism and other standard OOP features
    • Developers are no longer forced to use Server.CreateObject(...), so early-binding and type safety are possible.
  • Based on Windows programming; the developer can make use of DLL class libraries and other features of the web server to build more robust applications that do more than simply rendering HTML ( i.e. exception handling )

April 24, 2003

1.1

released together with Windows Server 2003

released together with Visual Studio .NET 2003

  • Mobile controls
  • Automatic input validation

November 7, 2005

2.0

codename Whidbey
released together with Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Web Developer Express
and SQL Server 2005

  • New data controls (GridView, FormView, DetailsView)
  • New technique for declarative data access (SqlDataSource, ObjectDataSource, XmlDataSource controls)
  • Navigation controls
  • Master pages
  • Login controls
  • Themes
  • Skins
  • Web parts
  • Personalization services
  • Full pre-compilation
  • New localization technique
  • Support for 64-bit processors
  • Provider class model

November 6, 2006

3.0

previously known as WinFX
released as an add-on to Visual Studio 2005

November 19, 2007

3.5

released together with Visual Studio 2008

  • New data controls (ListView, DataPager)
  • Integrated AJAX support
  • Improved support for nested master pages
  • Support for LINQ

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