• GC, JIT
• C#
• Coherent Framework
• XSP….ASP+…ASP.NET!
• WinForms

• Mobile ASP.NET controls
• Built-in support for ODBC and Oracle databases.
• IPv6 support.

• ASP.NET for the Masses
  ○ Application Building Blocks
    § Parts, Authentication, Role Management, etc
  ○ Visual Web Developer
• Client Development
• ClickOnce!

• Windows CardSpace - Digital identity interface.
• Windows Presentation Foundation : WPF
  ○ Vector Graphics, Media and UI
  ○ Enters the age of UX
• Windows Communication Foundation : WCF
  ○ Unified messaging model
• Windows Workflow Foundation : WF
  ○ Coordinating work with durable applications

• Linq
• Expression Trees and Lamda Methods
• Extension Methods
• Paging Support for ADO.NET
• Managed Wrappers for WMI and AD
• Enhancements to WCF and WF
• System.CodeDom namespace
• ASP.NET AJAX
• WCF/WF
  ○ REST Services
  ○ Workflow Services
• Client
  ○ Sync
  ○ Client app services

• ASP.NET Dynamic Data
• ADO.NET
 ○ Entity Framework
 ○ Data Services (Astoria)
• WCF
 ○ AtomPub ServiceDocuments
• Client
 ○ Client Profile
 ○ Performance
   § Working set and startup time
• Silverlight 2
 ○ RTM end of 2008
 ○ Brings power of .NET to the web client
 ○ Media and RIA .NET platform

• Base Class Library Improvements
 ○ Managed Extensibility Framework
 ○ More Core Data Structures
 ○ I/O Improvements
• Parallel Computing
 ○ Task Parallel Library
 ○ Parallel Linq (PLINQ)
 ○ Coordination Data Structures (CDS)
• Client
 ○ WPF
  § Client Profile
  § Business Focused Controls
  § Win7 Advances (Multi-touch, etc)
 ○ ADO.NET
  § Entity Framework v2
    □ Code-First Development
    □ TDD Support
    □ Foreign-Key Support
 ○ ASP.NET
  § ASP.NET Dynamic Data Improvements
  § ASP.NET MVC
  § ASP.NET Dynamic Data for MVC
  § Extensible Caching Framework
 ○ WF & WCF
  § Fully Declarative Services
  § Workflow Enhancements
   □ New flowchart modeling
   □ Workflow Rules Integration
   □ … much more…
  § WCF Enhancements
   □ Durable Duplex
   □ WS-Discovery & UDP Channel
   □ In-Process Channel
  § RIA (Silverlight)
   □ Simplified N-tier development
   □ Business-focused framework

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