ASP.NET 4 Beta 2 – New Version, New Docs, New MSDN Site !

October 20, 2009 | Comments | ASP.NET

We’ve been BUSY !

ASP.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 was released to MSDN Subscribers earlier this week.

General availability is scheduled for tomorrow !

Read the announcement [ HERE ] with an overview about the new SKUs and features or go straight to the download [ HERE ].

Check out the new look !!!!

You’ll find the documentation at the MSN web site [ HERE ] and when you do, you’ll see that the Server & Tools On Line team has been busy improving the MSDN site experience.

There is a TON of new stuff and I’ve built a list of potential topics for new content that I’m building. I though it might be useful if I shared that list here so …..

DIG IN !!!

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
Areas Support

Data-Annotation Attribute Validation Support
Templated Helpers

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

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Comments

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Anthony on October 20, 2009 9:04 am

Joe,

How do we install VS2010 beta2 if we have the beta1 version already installed?

Rgds,

Anthony
gill cleeren on October 20, 2009 9:23 am

@Joe, you need to uninstall beta 1 entirely, otherwise the setup won’t work.
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Joe on October 20, 2009 12:14 pm

Just general feedback: I can’t stand the online MSDN help and very much prefer the local help. It’s simply faster and easier to navigate than using a browser for website based help. I found out how to install the local help with VS2010, but it’s cumbersome and not part of the normal install sequence (as it used to be). I can understand Microsoft’s motivation for wanting to put all the help online and move away from local help, but it’s a terrible user experience. I don’t know if you have any influence, but is there any way to put the local help back on equal footing and/or visibility compared to all the effort being put into the online MSDN docs?
Joe on October 20, 2009 12:16 pm

Another feedback point (but for your blog): Ajax is great, but when I submit and there’s an input validation error please don’t delete all the input I had previously entered. On my previous entry I neglected to enter my name and when I hit submit my entire comment was deleted.
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Ron on October 20, 2009 8:46 pm

Let’s hope VS 2010 should not be another vista for developers
Sam on October 20, 2009 9:15 pm

I installed VS2010 Beta 2 today. VS2010 beta 2 looks like fancy look with slugish IDE. WPF based studio with make developers stick with VS2008. I do not understand why they had to pick WPF. I do not think one success can apply everywhere. Please switch back to none WPF based or prepare to loose developers or developers will stick with VS2008 (like VB6).
NFL007 on October 20, 2009 11:07 pm

How do we install VS2010 beta2 if we have the beta1 version already installed?
Kamran Shahid on October 21, 2009 12:20 am

Nice Joe
chirox on October 21, 2009 2:08 am

Thanks, Nice!
innerclick on October 21, 2009 6:54 am

It is nice and it looks and act different then vista….so far
custom essays on October 23, 2009 12:38 pm

"How do we install VS2010 beta2 if we have the beta1 version already installed?

NFL007 — October 20, 2009 11:07 PM "

Try to format disk c:/

Author, nice post!
Joe Stagner on October 23, 2009 1:28 pm

To install after Beta 1??

I just ininstalled B1 and installed B2 – no problems for me !
Aaron Ruckman on October 23, 2009 5:37 pm

@Anthony – There are instructions on how to uninstall Beta1 and then install Beta2 at the following blog post: blogs.msdn.com/…/installing-visu
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Pankaj on October 29, 2009 5:05 pm

Nice information Joe..Thanks For sharing..
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