Chapter 5. Understanding the New Features of ASP.NET

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Creating our first ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms application
  • Configuring our application to use unobtrusive validation
  • Using Smart Tasks in the HTML editor
  • Using WAI-ARIA support
  • Using the Extract to User Control feature
  • Using the Page Inspector feature
  • Creating an asynchronous HTTP module

Introduction

ASP.NET has definitely improved with .NET 4.5, providing us with better tools, capabilities, and performance.

As far as capabilities are concerned, the three "flavors" of ASP.NET are greatly enhanced. First, the new async features of .NET 4.5 are really interesting on ASP.NET. The web is becoming more interconnected every day, so asynchronous requests (and responses) are in all aspects ...

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