New
Server Controls
- ASP.NET 2.0 includes 45 new server controls that enable
powerful declarative support for data access, login
security, wizard navigation, image generation, menus,
tree views, portals and more. Many of the new controls
take advantage of core application services in ASP.NET
for scenarios like data access, membership and roles,
and personalization.
Data Controls
- Data access can be accomplished completely
declaratively (without code) using the new data-bound
and data source controls. There are new data source
controls to represent different data backends such as
SQL, business objects, and XML, and there are new
data-bound controls for rendering common UI for data,
such as grids, details, and data-bound forms.
Navigation Controls
- Provide a common UI for navigating between pages
in your site, such as tree views, menus, and
breadcrumbs.
Login Controls
- Provide the building blocks to add authentication
and authorization-based UI to a site, such as login
forms, create user forms, password retrieval, and custom
UI for logged in users or roles.
Web Part Controls
- A new family of controls that enable developers to
add rich, personalized content and layout to a site, in
addition to the ability to edit that content and layout
directly from an application page.
Master Pages
- This new feature provides the ability to define common
structure and interface elements for your site, such as
a page header, footer, or navigation bar, in a common
location called a "master page", to be shared by many
different pages within your site.
Themes and Skins
- This allows for easy customization of a site's
look-and-feel. You can define style information in a
common location called a "theme" and apply that style
information globally to pages or controls in a site.
Many more performance, scalability, administration,
management and extensibility enhancements and
additions...