what's new and cool with ASP.NET 2.0 ?? Part 2

One of the biggest issue with Web Applications and/or Web Portals is the authentication and authorisation of web users to access data and applications. This includes validating different user credentials and helping them manage the passwords. ASP.NET introduces a new Membership Service that provides APIs to create new users, validate credentials and get user information. Both membership and role management separates functionality from the data store. You can also store these memberships in SQL Server or Microsoft Access. See how membership works here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/yh26yfzy.aspx

There is substantial work involved in improving support for data access with ASP.NET. As a web developer, we have so many issues to bind data to Web Controls. Data source controls automatically fetches data and manages it when the page runs. The Data Source Control is a higher level API as compared to ADO.NET. There is also improvements with the data display controls that display and update data from web pages. All controls can use Data Source Control as data source, instead of working with datasets (ADO.NET). The GridView, TreeView and SiteMapPath controls have been enhanced to cater for ObjectDataSource.

Okei... so ... many would really wanna know... what are the new Web Controls available? ASP.NET has many improvements to Web controls, including enhancements and adding new controls. The new controls are Gridview, TreeView, Web Parts and Personalisation.