What is new in Asp.Net 4.0?
Posted by: Nikhat S Khan on: November 2, 2011
ASP.Net 4.0 has many improvements from previous versions such as
- Web.config File Refactoring
- Extensible Output Caching
- Auto-Start Web Applications
- Permanently Redirecting a Page by introducing a new method RedirectPermanent()
- Shrinking Session State to shrink session data
- Extensible Request Validation to avoid cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by adding custom request-validation logic.
- Object Caching and Object Caching Extensibility by introducing a new assembly “System.Runtime.Caching.dll”
ASP.Net 4.0 also introduced many new features such as
- jQuery Included with Web Forms and MVC: Built in JQuery support
- Content Delivery Network Support: Enables you to easily add ASP.NET Ajax and jQuery scripts to your Web applications. We can refence JQuery script over http like <script src=”http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery/jquery-1.4.2.js” >
- New Meta tags under HTML Head tag
- Enabling View State for Individual Controls
- Extended Browser Capabilities
- ASP.NET Chart Control to create visually compelling charts for complex statistical or financial analysis
- New Field Templates for URLs and E-mail Addresses
