ASP.NET Whidbey adds a huge number of productivity features and enhancements. Although it's still early in the development process, Paul Sheriff and Ken Getz dig in and start playing with some of the new features, passing along what they've found.
by Ken Getz,
Paul D. Sheriff
February 19, 2004
e remember clearly the time period before ASP.NET 1.0 shipped. While building applications using ASP, we said over and over "I sure wish we could use this stuff right now," referring to ASP.NET. Having seen a preview version of ASP.NET Whidbey that's included as part of the Whidbey release of Visual Studio .NET, we're doing it again. We really want to use this new technology right now. Of course, the product is still in its early stages, so anything and everything can still change, but it certainly appears that the number of features added for ASP.NET Whidbey rivals the number of features added for the original release. That is, ASP.NET Whidbey looks very cool.
In this article, we'll point out some of the changes to ASP.NET that are going to make it much easier to develop Web sites in a fraction of the time it takes now. (Note that this article was written in September 2003, using the Whidbey Alpha Milestone 2 release. By the time you read this, a newer version may be available with more and/or different features.)
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e remember clearly the time period before ASP.NET 1.0 shipped. While building applications using ASP, we said over and over "I sure wish we could use this stuff right now," referring to ASP.NET. Having seen a preview version of ASP.NET Whidbey that's included as part of the Whidbey release of Visual Studio .NET, we're doing it again. We really want to use this new technology right now. Of course, the product is still in its early stages, so anything and everything can still change, but it certainly appears that the number of features added for ASP.NET Whidbey rivals the number of features added for the original release. That is, ASP.NET Whidbey looks very cool.
