Web Development Improved in Visual Studio 2010

The .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 2010 include numerous additions and improvements to the ASP.NET Web development framework. The primary enhancements are found in Microsoft’s Model-View-Controller (MVC) 2 Library, which employs a development pattern that separates Web sites into logical components to ease team development and testing, and the ASP.NET Ajax Library, which helps developers create Web sites that pass more work on to the client, reducing traffic to the server. A new Web site deployment model is also provided. The new release could help development teams implement and deploy more capable and efficient Web sites, provided they invest time and effort for the upgrade.

What Is ASP.NET?

ASP.NET is the .NET Framework—based evolution of Microsoft’s original unmanaged code-based Active Server Pages (ASP) technology. ASP.NET allows developers to create Web sites by combining HTML, scripts (usually JavaScript), server-side controls, and code written in .NET programming languages such as C# and Visual Basic (VB) .NET. When a browser requests a URL representing an ASP page, IIS passes the request to the ASP engine, which executes the developer’s server-side code and controls to build an HTML and script response, which it then returns to the browser.