ASP .NET 2005  Tips: (new features)

Master Pages allows 1 page directive line of code to associate header/footer/menus/etc with a page

Precompiling is available so first load of page that's changed doesn't take longer

Caching can now be invalidated against SQL Server on a record level

Partial classes allow all HTML controls referencing so myTextBox.focus sets focus

Classes in Code folder are auto compiled and referenced for current application

Web Parts allow easy to build pages that allow customization during runtime of their layout and visibility

SqlDataSource, ObjectDataSource controls allow less code for data work

50+ controls added to the toolbox like: ImageMap, TreeView, security related, navigation related

Some controls like the Login and PasswordRecovery controls replace whole code pages

Profile Object is like Session Object, but doesn't die on Session End, and is strongly typed

Security is enhanced with role mgmt

Themes and skins are supported

Intellisense is enhanced in HTML areas

64 bit enabled

Built in Web Server so you can work on folders of files to test w/o needing IIS

Postback to another page is now easy with the PreviousPage reference to bring data to the new page

Auto sends email to Admin. when exception occurs in site, health monitoring system.

Encrypt sections of web.config

Browser partial updates w/o full postback, XML-HTTP callbacks, no blink

Auto-Culture handling

New expression types: <%$...%> for loading from web.config, resources, & custom versions of

Visual Studio speed problems handled

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