ASP.NET - Versions

Versions

The ASP.NET releases history tightly correlates with the .NET Framework releases:

Date Version Remarks New ASP.NET related features
January 16, 2002 Old version, no longer supported: 1.0 First version

released together with Visual Studio .NET
  • Object-oriented Web application development supporting inheritance, polymorphism and other standard OOP features
    • Developers are no longer forced to use Server.CreateObject(...), so early-binding and type safety are possible.
  • Based on Windows programming; the developer can make use of DLL class libraries and other features of the Web server to build more robust applications that do more than simply rendering HTML (e.g. exception handling)
April 24, 2003 Old version, no longer supported: 1.1 released together with Windows Server 2003

released together with Visual Studio .NET 2003
  • Mobile controls
  • Automatic input validation
November 7, 2005 Old version, no longer supported: 2.0

codename Whidbey
released together with Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Web Developer Express
and SQL Server 2005
  • New data controls (GridView, FormView, DetailsView)
  • New technique for declarative data access (SqlDataSource, ObjectDataSource, XmlDataSource controls)
  • Navigation controls
  • Master pages
  • Login controls
  • Themes
  • Skins
  • Web parts
  • Personalization services
  • Full pre-compilation
  • New localization technique
  • Support for 64-bit processors
  • Provider class model
November 21, 2006 Old version, no longer supported: 3.0
  • Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
  • Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)
  • Windows Communication Foundation which can use ASP.NET to host services.
  • Windows CardSpace which uses ASP.NET for login roles.
November 19, 2007 Old version, no longer supported: 3.5 Released with Visual Studio 2008 and Windows Server 2008
  • New data controls (ListView, DataPager)
  • ASP.NET AJAX included as part of the framework
  • Support for HTTP pipelining and syndication feeds.
  • WCF support for RSS, JSON, POX and Partial Trust
  • All the .NET Framework 3.5 changes, like LINQ etc.
August 11, 2008 Old version, no longer supported: 3.5 Service Pack 1 Released with Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1
  • Incorporation of ASP.NET Dynamic Data
  • Support for controlling browser history in an ASP.NET AJAX application
  • Ability to combine multiple JavaScript files into one file for more efficient downloading
  • New namespaces System.Web.Abstractions and System.Web.Routing
April 12, 2010 Older version, yet still supported: 4.0

Parallel extensions and other .NET Framework 4 features
August 15, 2012 Current stable version: 4.5 Released with Visual Studio 2012 and Windows Server 2012 for Windows 8

Parallel extensions and other .NET Framework 4.5 features
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