ASP.NET

What's New in ASP.NET

1. Navigation. ASP.NET’s navigation framework includes a mechanism for defining site maps that describe the logical arrangement of pages in a website. It also includes navigation controls (such as trees and breadcrumb-style links) that use this information to let users move through the site. 
2. Data source controls: The data source control model allows you to define how your page interacts with a data source declaratively in your markup, rather than having to write the equivalent data access code by hand. Best of all, this feature doesn’t force you to abandon good component-based design—you can bind to a custom data component just as easily as you bind directly to the database
3. Themes: Themes allow you to define a standardized set of appearance characteristics for web controls. Once defined, you can apply these formatting presets across your website for a consistent look. 
4. Master pages: Master pages are reusable page templates. For example, you can use a master page to ensure that every web page in your application has the same header, footer, and navigation controls. 
5. Profiles: Profiles allow you to store user-specific information in a database without writing any database code. Instead, ASP.NET takes care of the tedious work of retrieving the profile data when it’s needed and saving the profile data when it changes. 
6. Web parts: One common type of web application is the portal, which centralizes different information using separate panes on a single web page. Web parts provide a prebuilt portal framework complete with a flow-based layout, configurable views, and even drag-and-drop support.