An Overview Of The New Services, Controls, And Features In ASP.NET 2.0

Since its introduction in 2002, ASP.NET has become the gold standard for Web applications run on servers powered by Microsoft® Windows®. In version 2.0 of the Microsoft .NET Framework, ASP.NET sheds its new-kid-on-the-block status. Its aim is to reduce the amount of code required to accomplish common Web programming tasks by 70 percent or more. New services, controls, and features make ASP.NET 2.0 almost as dramatic an improvement to ASP.NET 1.x as that was to ASP Classic.