Preview of ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP was Released
Microsoft released today the first CTP preview of an "ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions".
This first ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions preview release includes:
- ASP.NET AJAX Improvements: New ASP.NET AJAX features in the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions release include better browser history support (back/forward button integration, and server-side history management support), improved AJAX content linking support with permalinks, and additional JavaScript library improvements.
- ASP.NET MVC: This model view controller (MVC) framework for ASP.NET provides a structured model that enables a clear separation of concerns within web applications, and makes it easier to unit test your code and support a TDD workflow. It also helps provide more control over the URLs you publish in your applications, and more control over the HTML that is emitted from them.
- ASP.NET Dynamic Data Support: The ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions release delivers new features that enable faster creation of data driven web sites. It provides a rich scaffolding framework, and will enable rapid data driven site development using both ASP.NET WebForms and ASP.NET MVC.
- ASP.NET Silverlight Support: ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions release deliver support for easily integrating Silverlight within your ASP.NET applications. Included will be new controls that make it easy to integrate Silverlight video/media and interactive content within your sites.
- ADO.NET Data Services: In parallel with the ASP.NET Extensions release, ADO.NET Entity Framework (codename "Astoria") will be also released. This provides a modeling framework that enables developers to define a conceptual model of a database schema that closely aligns to a real world view of the information.
More info here.
Download the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview