Sitting in the ASP.NET 4.0 session.  What a confusing road map with arrows going every different direction.

From what I can tell.  They are putting their formal releases going forward on www.asp.net and interim drops on codeplex at www.codeplex.com/aspnet.  The latter location is intended to be more cutting edge and sneak peek oriented.  Full source code will be provided along with road maps around thoughts and priorities.  They are currently getting around 1100 downloads a day.  They released new bits to codeplex today including a new ASP.NET Ajax Preview 3, Dynamic Data and MVC.

ASP.Net investments in dev10 include rollups of existing previews.

FX4.0 maintains a high compatibility bar with FX 3.5.  VS10 support multi-targeting to  FX4.0 or FX 3.5.

ClientIds can now be managed by the control developers for the rendered clientid.  Mangling is gone!!!

Removes the need to use CSS adapters.  Defers to CSS stytles and bypasses existing style properties. Supports non-table based HTML rendering for all controls.

URL Routing for web forms.  Friendly url handling for standard web-forms.

Viewstate can now be disabled on page and enabled on only specific controls. 

ASP.NET Ajax innovation for RIA.  Appealling to JavaScript developers is a goal.  Want to also provide support for the page developer.  IntelliSense for jQuery will be included.

Databinding will include client-side binding using REST or Web Services.

ASP.NET Ajax toolkit will be moved into ASP.NET proper and include new controls.  The script libraries will be centralized and broken up for performance.

ASP.NET Dynamic Data has enhanced filtering with auto complete, search filters and cascading filters.  Enhanced meta-data will also include control over column ordering.

Monday, October 27, 2008 1:42:01 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)         Comments [0]