ASP.NET 4.0 Features

ASP.NET 4.0 Features

ASP.NET v4 is released with Visual studio 2010. Web developers are presented with a bewildering range of new features and so Ludmal De Silva has described what he considers to be the most important new features in ASP.NET V4

The focus of Microsoft’s latest ASP.NET 4has mainly been on improving the performance and Search-engine Optimization (SEO). In this article, I'll be taking a look at what I think are the most important new features in ASP.NET 4.

• Output cache extensibility
• Session state compression
• View state mode for individual control
• Page.MetaKeyword and Page.MetaDescription properties
• Response.RedirectPermanent method
• Routing in ASP.NET
• Increase the URL character length
• New syntax for Html Encode
• Predictable Client IDs
• Web.config file refactoring
• Auto-Start ASP.NET applications
• Improvements on Microsoft Ajax Library

I’ll describe the details of each of these features in the following sections.