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 SP1 System.Web.Abstractions.dll are merged with System.Web.dll,
under System.Web namespace.
Changes
Beta1 of ASP.NET 4.0 introduced 42 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.