ASP.NET 4.0 Beta1 - What’s new in System.Web.dll. Assembly outlook [whitepaper]
Introduction
This guideline provides detailed overview of System.Web assembly and the new classes and methods in ASP.NET 4.0, which were released with Visual Studio 2010 Beta1.
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Description
ASP.NET 4.0 introduces several changes to the web assemblies and also merges several dlls that existed in .NET 2.0 - 3.5 SP1. For example, new features from ASP.NET 3.5 System.Web.Abstractions.dll and System.Web.Routing.dll are merged with System.Web.dll, under System.Web namespace.
Changes
Beta1 of ASP.NET 4.0 introduced 27 new classes/interfaces/enums and 22 modifications of the existing ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 functionality.
Take into account, that Beta1 doesn’t provide the complete list of the new features – they can add new stuff or remove existed one prior to the final release.
The latest document version is available there http://tinyurl.com/qr583j (PDF file)