ASP.NET Site Gets New Look

The ASP.NET site has a new look as it gets ready for ASP.NET 4. The new look boasts icons to help you get started, download files, find a hoster, or discuss. There’s a spotlight section where you can find the latest news and great links to postings about ASP.NET.

If you are new to ASP.NET, you can find an overview view, tools to download ASP.NET, a video on how to choose between the technologies offered in ASP.NET, and how to build your first application in under 20 minutes.

You can get ASP.NET for free including:

• ASP.NET Web Framework
• Visual Studio Express Development Tool
• IIS Web Server
• SQL Server Express Database

See ASP.NET Downloads. Also see links to Website Spark, a program that offers developer tools for professional Web developers or small companies that build Web sites.

Features in ASP.NET 4

A series of posts from Dan Maharry highlight the new reatures in ASP.NET 4. Dan walks us through ASP.NET 4 in detail, from Web.Config to View State, from clean HTML to routing.

Part 0 : Installing VS2010

Part 1 : New Visual Studio 'Code Optimized' Settings Profiles

Part 2 : New Visual Studio Project Templates

Part 3 : Someone has stolen web.config!

Part 4 : Config Transformation Files

Part 5 : I’ll name that browser in one…

Part 6 : New @Page Directive Attributes

Part 7 : A New Viewstate Opt-in Model

Part 8 : Introducing ClientIDMode

Part 9 : Rendering Cleaner HTML

Part 10 : A Handful of Little Things

Part 11 : Configuring Routing Is Easier

Bruce D. KyleISV Architect Evangelist | Microsoft Corporation