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Friday, November 30, 2007

ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Release

Scott Guthrie has just announced the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions release for the next week. It will include:

  • ASP.NET MVC
  • ASP.NET AJAX Improvements
  • ASP.NET Dynamic Data Support (scaffolding!)
  • ASP.NET Silverlight Support
  • ADO.NET Data Services (ADO.NET Entity Framework and Astoria)
Scott has also announced Silverlight 1.1 renaming to 2.0 (makes sense!) and releasing a beta on the first quarter of the next year, with:
  • WPF UI Framework: The current Silverlight Alpha release only includes basic controls support and a managed API for UI drawing. The next public Silverlight preview will add support for the higher level features of the WPF UI framework. These include: the extensible control framework model, layout manager support, two-way data-binding support, and control template and skinning support. The WPF UI Framework features in Silverlight will be a compatible subset of the WPF UI Framework features in last week's .NET Framework 3.5 release.

  • Rich Controls: Silverlight will deliver a rich set of controls that make building Rich Internet Applications much easier. The next Silverlight preview release will add support for core form controls (textbox, checkbox, radiobutton, etc), built-in layout management controls (StackPanel, Grid, etc), common functionality controls (TabControl, Slider, ScrollViewer, ProgressBar, etc) and data manipulation controls (DataGrid, etc).

  • Rich Networking Support: Silverlight will deliver rich networking support. The next Silverlight preview release will add support for REST, POX, RSS, and WS* communication. It will also add support for cross domain network access (so that Silverlight clients can access resources and data from any trusted source on the web).

  • Rich Base Class Library Support: Silverlight will include a rich .NET base class library of functionality (collections, IO, generics, threading, globalization, XML, local storage, etc). The next Silverlight preview release will also add built-in support for LINQ to XML and richer HTML DOM API integration.


Great news. Can't wait for the CTP.

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