The document summarizes updates to the ASP.NET platform, including ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET Web Forms, and ASP.NET MVC. It highlights new features like performance monitoring and caching options for ASP.NET Core, improvements to routing and markup cleanup for Web Forms, and area partitioning and async controller support for MVC. The document also discusses updates to Visual Studio tooling for ASP.NET projects and a continued commitment to jQuery. In summary, it presents the ASP.NET framework as mature with many enhancements in ASP.NET 4.0 to support both traditional Web Forms and the newer MVC approach.

2. Mike Ormond, Microsoft @MikeOrmond http://bit.ly/mikeormond mike.ormond@microsoft.com ASP.NET et al

3. The State of the Nation Image courtesy of marcs-album@flickr

4. ASP.NET Core Platform web.config – a thing of beauty Performance monitoring How would you like your cache? Session state squeeze <%: vs <%= … Image courtesy of marxalot@flickr

5. ASP.NET Web Forms Take control of your ClientIDs Manage your View State A big hit with SEO Routing Meta tags A markupcleanup Semantic <asp:Menu /> … Image courtesy of aarongustafson@flickr

6. ASP.NET MVC Area partitioning Validate with DataAnnotations Templated helpers Strongly-typed helpers AsyncController … Image courtesy of mattiasjohansson@flickr

7. ASP.NET Tooling Deployment Snippets – at last! ASP.NET HTML JavaScript More intelligent Intellisense New project template ‘Code-only’ profile Image courtesy of ebarney@flickr

8. In Summary Mature framework ASP.NET 4.0 – wealth of enhancements Whether Web Forms or MVC Commitment to jQuery Visual Studio 2010 More information http://asp.net http://bit.ly/NewInAsp4

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