ASP.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 Web Development Beta 2 Overview

This whitepaper provides an overview of the new exciting features available with ASP.Net 4.0.
Below is a list of the topics covered in the document:

Core Services
Web.config File Minification
Extensible Output Caching
Auto-Start Web Applications
Permanently Redirecting a Page
The Incredible Shrinking Session State
Expanding the Range of Allowable URLs
Extensible Request Validation
Object Caching and Object Caching Extensibility
Extensible HTML, URL, and HTTP Header Encoding
Performance Monitoring for Individual Applications in a Single Worker Process
Multi-Targeting

New Features in ASP.NET AJAX 4
Client Template Rendering
Instantiating Behaviors and Controls Declaratively
Live Data Binding
Using the Observer Pattern with JavaScript Objects and Arrays
The DataView Control
The AdoNetServiceProxy Class
The DataContext and AdoNetDataContext Classes
Refactoring the Microsoft AJAX Framework Libraries
The DOM Ready Event
Using JSONP to Retrieve Cross-Domain Data.

Web Forms
Setting Meta Tags with the Page.MetaKeywords and Page.MetaDescription Properties
Enabling View State for Individual Controls
Changes to Browser Capabilities
Routing in ASP.NET 4
Setting Client IDs
Persisting Row Selection in Data Controls
ASP.NET Chart Control
Filtering Data with the QueryExtender Control
Html Encoded Code Expressions
Project Template Changes
CSS Improvements
Hiding div Elements Around Hidden Fields.
Rendering an Outer Table for Templated Controls
ListView Control Enhancements
CheckBoxList and RadioButtonList Control Enhancements
Menu Control Improvements
Wizard and CreateUserWizard Controls

ASP.NET MVC
Dynamic Data
Enabling Dynamic Data for Existing Projects
Declarative DynamicDataManager Control Syntax
Entity Templates
New Field Templates for URLs and E-mail Addresses
Creating Links with the DynamicHyperLink Control
Support for Inheritance in the Data Model
Support for Many-to-Many Relationships (Entity Framework Only)
New Attributes to Control Display and Support Enumerations
Enhanced Support for Filters

Visual Studio 2010 Web Designer Improvements
Improved CSS Compatibility
HTML and JScript Snippets
JScript IntelliSense Enhancements.

Web Application Deployment with Visual Studio 2010
Web Packaging
Web.config Transformation
Database Deployment
One-Click Publish for Web Applications