The Goals of ASP.NET 2.0

The Goals of ASP.NET 2.0

ASP.NET 2.0 is a major release of the product and is an integral part of the .NET Framework 2.0. This

release of the Framework was code-named Whidbey internally at Microsoft. You might hear others refer-

ring to this release of ASP.NET as ASP.NET Whidbey. ASP.NET 2.0 heralds a new wave of development

that should eliminate any of the remaining barriers to adopting this new way of coding Web applications.

When the ASP.NET team started working on ASP.NET 2.0, it had specific goals to achieve. These goals

focused around developer productivity, administration and management, as well as performance and

scalability. These goals are achieved with this milestone product release. The next sections look at each of

these goals.