Featues of ASP.NET 2.0

ASP.NET 2.0 improves ASP.NET by adding several new features.
Design goals for ASP.NET 2.0:

• Increase productivity by removing 70% of the code
• Use the same controls for all types of devices
• Provides a faster and better web server platform
• Simplify the administration of web applications

Some of the features in ASP.NET 2.0 are:

• Master Pages, Themes, and Web Parts
• Standard controls for navigation
• Standard controls for security
• Roles, personalization and internationalization services
• Improved and simplified data access controls
• Full support for XML standard like , XHTML, XML, and WSDL
• Improved compilation and deployment(installation)
• Improved site management
• New and improved development tools