.NET FrameWork 2. 0 Features:
- Generics
- Anonymous methods
- Partial class
- Nullable type
- The new API gives a fine grain control on the behavior of the
runtime with regards to multithreading, memory allocation, assembly
loading and more
- Full 64-bit support for both the x64 and the IA64 hardware platforms
- New personalization features for ASP.NET, such as support for themes, skins and webparts.
- .NET Micro Framework
- Data Tables
.NET Framework 3.0 Features:
Also called WinFX,includes a new set of managed code APIs that are an
integral part of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 operating
systems and provides
- Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) – formerly
called Indigo; a service-oriented messaging system which allows programs
to interoperate locally or remotely similar to web services
- Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) - formerly
called Avalon; a new user interface subsystem and API based on XML and
vector graphics, which uses 3D computer graphics hardware and Direct3D
technologies.
- Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) allows for building of task automation and integrated transactions using workflows.
- Windows CardSpace, formerly called InfoCard; a
software component which securely stores a person’s digital identities
and provides a unified interface for choosing the identity for a
particular transaction, such as logging in to a website
.NET Framework 3.5 Features:
- Language Integrated Query (LINQ) for SQL, XML, Dataset, Object
- Addin system
- p2p base class
- Active directory
- ASP.NET Ajax
- Anonymous types with static type inference
- Paging support for ADO.NET
- ADO.NET synchronization API to synchronize local caches and server side data stores
- Asynchronous network I/O API
- Support for HTTP pipelining and syndication feeds.
- New System.CodeDom namespace
.NET Framework 4.0 Features:
- Common Language Runtime (CLR) – The following sections describe new
features in security, parallel computing, performance and diagnostics,
dynamic language runtime, and other CLR-related technologies
- Base Class Libraries
- Networking – Enhancements have been made that affect how integrated Windows authentication is handled by the HttpWebRequest, HttpListener, SmtpClient, SslStream, NegotiateStream, and related classes in the System.Net and related namespaces
- Web – The following sections describe new features in ASP.NET core services, Web Forms, Dynamic Data, and Visual Web Developer.
- Client – The following sections describe new features in Windows
Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF).
- Data
- Communications – Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) provides
the new features and enhancements described in the following sections.
- Workflow – Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) in .NET Framework 4.0
changes several development paradigms from earlier versions. Workflows
are now easier to create, execute, and maintain.
