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New Features of ASP.NET 2.0
- New Developer Infrastructures
An exciting advancement in ASP.NET 2.0 is that new infrastructures are in place for you to use in your applications. The ASP.NET team selected some of the most common programming operations performed with ASP.NET 1.0 to be built directly into ASP.NET. This saves you considerable time and coding.
- Membership and Role Management
In earlier versions, if you were developing a portal that required users to log in to the application to gain privileged access, invariably you had to create it yourself. It can be tricky to create applications with areas that are accessible only to select individuals.
- Personalization
One advanced feature that portals love to offer their membership base is the capability to personalize their offerings so that end users can make the site look and function however they want. The capability to personalize an application and store the personalization settings is now completely built into the ASP.NET framework.
- The ASP.NET Portal Framework
During the days of ASP.NET 1.0, developers could go to the ASP.NET team’s site (found at http:// www.asp.net) and download some Web application demos called IBuySpy., These demos were known as Developer Solution Kits and are used as the basis for many of the Web sites on the Internet today. Some were even extended into Open Source frameworks such as DotNetNuke.
The nice thing about IBuySpy was that you could use the code it provided as a basis to build either a Web store or a portal. You simply took the base code as a starting point and extended it. For example, you could change the look and feel of the presentation part of the code or introduce advanced functionality into its modular architecture. Developer Solution Kits were quite popular because they made performing these types of operations so easy. Figure 1-4 shows the INETA (International .NET Association) Web site, which builds on the IBuySpy portal framework.
- Site Navigation
The ASP.NET team members realize that end users want to navigate through applications with ease. The mechanics to make this work in a logical manner is sometimes hard to code. The team solved the problem in ASP.NET 2.0 with a series of navigation-based server controls.
