What’s New in .NET 3.5?

What’s New in .NET 3.5?

It is a good idea to know ‘What’s New in .NET 3.5′ before going to use it.



ASP.NET



ü Support for enabling existing ASP.NET 2.0 pages for AJAX

ü Creation of ASMX & WCF based web services and consuming them from AJAX Library

ü ASP.NET server side application services like authentication, roles management exposed as web services

ü ASP.NET Merge Tool – a new tool for merging pre-compiled assemblies

ü New ListView control which supports edit, insert, delete, sorting & paging

ü ASP.NET integrated with core IIS 7.0 which makes ASP.NET services like authentication & caching available for other content types also.

ü Microsoft AJAX Library to support AJAX based web development



Base Classes & CLR



ü Support for CSharp 3.5 including LINQ.

ü HashSet: A high performance collection of type set.

ü Time Zone Improvements : to develop applications which operate in multiple time zones

ü Minor Improvements in Threading, Reflection and controlling the GC behavior



Others



ü Client Application Services: All windows based application to use ASP.NET login, roles and profile services hosted on central server.

ü Occasionally Connected Services (OCS): keeps windows application’s local and remote data in sync.

ü ‘Silver’ : code name for a new technology which unifies WF and WCF

WCF Syndication: WCF services exposing syndication feeds. Supports Atom 1.0 and RSS 2.0