Improvements in ASP.net 4 with Visual Studio 2010

• Simplified deployment of applications, settings, and data.


• Easy redirection of search engine–friendly URLs to different pages.

• Cascading style sheet–friendly rendering for many controls.

• Applications that start up before the first user request.

• Extensible request validation for more flexible security.

• Easy setting of meta tags at run time.

• The ability to enable view state for individual controls to reduce page sizes.

• Static client IDs to allow web server controls to be reliably accessed from JavaScript.

• The inclusion of AJAX jQuery scripts in Visual Studio templates.

• Improved Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) capabilities for creation of strongly

• typed queries for collections and databases.

• Dynamic Data templates for rapid development of data-driven websites.

• Compressed session state data.

• A new Chart control for quick creation of interactive three-dimensional charts.

• Built-in ASP.NET MVC 2 for creation of layered applications that are easily testable.