Some New Features on .NET Framework 3.5

1 – New .NET Framework 3.5 Setup Bootstrapper for Client Applications
The bootstrapper component can handle automatically downloading and installing either the .NET Framework Client Profile or the full .NET Framework Setup Package from the Internet if your machine doesn’t have either of them installed. The boostrapper can also automatically handle upgrading machines that have a previous version of the .NET Framework installed.

2 – WPF Performance Improvements
SP1 also adds support for better data scalability in WPF. The ListView, ListBox and TreeView controls now support “item container recycling” and “virtualization” support which allows you to easily achieve a 40% performance improvement with scrolling scenarios. These controls also now optionally support a “deferred scrolling” feature which allows you to avoid scrolling in real time and instead wait until a user releases the scroll thumb.

3 – WPF Data Improvements
# Better handling and conversion support for null values in editable controls
# Item-level validation that applies validation rules to an entire bound item
# MultiSelector support to handle multi-selection and bulk editing scenarios
# IEditableCollectionView support to interface data controls to data sources and enable editing/adding/removing items in a transactional way

4 – Visual Studio for .NET Framework 3.5
# Events tab support within the property browser
# Ability to sort properties alphabetically in the property browser
# Margin snaplines which makes form layout much quicker
# Better designer support for TabControl, Expander, and Grid

5 – “One Click” Application Deployments
# ClickOnce improvements for generating MSI + ClickOnce application packages
# ClickOnce error dialog boxes now support links to application specific support sites on the Web
# ClickOnce now has design-time support for setting up file associations
# ClickOnce application publishers can now decide to opt out of signing and hashing the ClickOnce manifests as they see appropriate for their scenarios.

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.NET Framework 3.5

Version 3.5 of the .NET Framework was released on 19 November 2007, but it is not included with Windows Server 2008. As with .NET Framework 3.0, version 3.5 uses the CLR of version 2.0. In addition, it installs .NET Framework 2.0 SP1, (.NET Framework 2.0 SP2 with 3.5 SP1) and .NET Framework 3.0 SP1 (.NET Framework 3.0 SP2 with 3.5 SP1), which adds some methods and properties to the BCL classes in version 2.0 which are required for version 3.5 features such as Language Integrated Query (LINQ). These changes do not affect applications written for version 2.0.

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Here are some of the improvement that end users / developers will gain by creating a web application using the latest .NET Framework.
1 – ASP.NET Dynamic Data, which provides a rich scaffolding framework that enables rapid data driven development without writing code, and a new addition to ASP.NET AJAX that provides support for managing browser history (back button support).

2 – Performance improvements to WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), including a faster startup time and improved performance for Bitmap effects.

3 – ClickOnce applications which will display a customized branding, and ClickOnce error dialog boxes support links to application-specific support sites.

4 – LINQ to SQL includes new support for the new date and file stream capabilities in SQL Server 2008.

5 – The ADO.NET Data Services Framework makes data service creation over any data source.

6 – Windows Communication Foundation now makes the DataContract Serializer easier to use.

7 – The .NET Framework Data Provider for SQL Server (SqlClient) adds new support for file stream and sparse column capabilities.

Currently, the latest version of .NET Framework ever released is .NET Framework Service Pack 1. It can be downloaded here.

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ASP.NET 3.5

ASP.NET 3.5 Hosting Enhancement with ASP.NET 3.5 SP1

ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 has been released a few months ago and everybody were expecting for more improvement on the features such as Entity Framework, Dynamic Data and Routing.

They also contain a number of feature additions and enhancements that make building .NET applications better.

ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 Improvements

Below are some of the major improvement on ASP.NET 3.5 SP1.

1 – ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 adds new functionality to the existing GridView, ListView, DetailsView and FormView controls in ASP.NET, and enables smart validation and flexible data templating options.
It also delivers new smart filtering server controls, as well as adds support for automatically traversing primary-key/foreign-key relationships and displaying friendly foreign key names.

2 – This new routing engine is used by both ASP.NET Dynamic Data as well as the new ASP.NET MVC framework. It will support both WebForms and MVC based requests.

3 – ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 are great “companion” with the upgrades and provide more flexibility and improvements for web developers.

4 – The script combining feature supports both path based scripts and assembly resource based scripts, and dynamically serves up the combined scripts using the ScriptResources.axd handler.

5 – ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 codes in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 adds richer source code formatting support for JavaScript as well.

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The Entity Framework is an evolution of the existing suite of ADO.NET data access technologies. The Entity Framework enables developers to program against relational databases in according to application-specific domain models instead of the underlying database models.

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The Entity Framework introduces some additional features, including support for new SQL Server 2008 types, default graph serialization of Entities, and the Entity Data Source. This release of the Entity Framework supports the new date and file stream capabilities in SQL Server 2008. The graph serialization work helps developers who want to build Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services that model full graphs as data contracts. The Entity Data Source provides a traditional data source experience for ASP.NET Web application builders who want to work with the Entity Framework.

The ADO.NET Data Services Framework consists of a combination of patterns and libraries, which enable data to be exposed as a flexible REST (Representational State Transfer)-based data service that can be consumed by Web clients in a corporate network or across the Internet. The ADO.NET Data Services Framework makes data service creation over any data source.

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1) Performance improvements to WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), including a faster startup time and improved performance for Bitmap effects. Additional functionality for WPF includes better support for line of business applications, native splash screen support, DirectX pixel shader support, and the new WebBrowser control.

2) LINQ to SQL includes new support for the new date and file stream capabilities in SQL Server 2008.

3) Windows Communication Foundation now makes the DataContract Serializer easier to use by providing improved interoperability support, enhancing the debugging experience in partial trust scenarios, and extending syndication protocol support for wider usage in Web 2.0 applications.

4) The .NET Framework Data Provider for SQL Server (SqlClient) adds new support for file stream and sparse column capabilities in SQL Server 2008.

5) ASP.NET Dynamic Data, which provides a rich scaffolding framework that enables rapid data driven development without writing code, and a new addition to ASP.NET AJAX that provides support for managing browser history (back button support).

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ListView is a new data bound control that is integrated in ASP.Net 3.5 / .NET Framework 3.5. ListView control is similar to GridView, Repeater, and DataList which helps us to display a table of data with awesome additional features.

We can use repeater control whenever we need to display the data in a custom format, as opposed to only tabular view in GridView control. The Repeater control lacks in certain features like edit, update and paging. Using GridView control it is possible to Edit/Update/Delete data but with a big limitation on the layout of the data display. There is no single control available in earlier versions of asp.net that accommodates all the above features. The introduction of ASP.Net 3.5 answers this with the new ListView control.

In short, ListView control can be thought as a hybrid between GridView and Repeater control. ListView control gives us more control on the rendered HTML output with edit/update/delete feature. Also, ListView control has a built in support for adding new row, sorting, etc. ASP.NET 3.5 applications are ideal to develop with the latest Visual Studio 2008 applications.

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.NET 3.5 now includes built-in support for all ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 features.

Users can now use Visual Studio 2008 to target both existing ASP.NET applications built with ASP.NET AJAX 1.0, as well as target the new version of ASP.NET AJAX built-into .NET 3.5.

Facts about .NET 3.5 Framework with ASP.NET AJAX:
ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 built as a separate download so that users can install AJAX directly on ASP.NET 2.0. The good news is, with the latest .NET Framework 3.5, all of the ASP.NET AJAX has been build in with ASP.NET, users are not require to install the ASP.NET AJAX separately when testing or deploying the applications.

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Setting for ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 to Use with ASP.NET AJAX 3.5:
Users who use Visual Studio 2008 to open an existing ASP.NET 2.0 application that uses ASP.NET AJAX 1.0, he / she able to choose to upgrade the application to use .NET 3.5 (and the version of ASP.NET AJAX included within it). Upgrading an ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 application to .NET 3.5 does not require any amendment of the application code, and will be able to complete within minutes.

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List View:
The ListView control is quiet flexible and contains features of the Gridview, Datagrid, Repeater and similar list controls available in ASP.NET 2.0. It provides the ability to insert, delete, page (using Data Pager), sort and edit data. Users can have great amount of flexibility over the markup generated and complete control on how the data is to be displayed.

Data Pager:
Data Pager provide users with a easier way of paging with the controls. Currently only List View supports it as it implements the IPageableItemContainer. However support is likely to be added to other List controls as well.

LINQ:
LINQ (Language Integrated Query) adds native data querying capability to C# and VB.NET 2008 along with the compiler and Intellisense support. LINQ is a component of .NET Framework 3.5. LINQ defines operators that allow users deploy the query in a consistent manner over databases, objects and XML.

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