C# 2.0, .NET Framework 2.0, VS2005

C# 2.0

• Generics
• Iterators
• Partial Classes
• Nullable Types
• Anonymous Methods
• Namespace alias qualifier
• Static Classes
• External Assembly Alias
• Property Accessor Accessibility
• Covariance and Contravariance in Delegates
• How to: Declare, Instantiate, and Use a Delegate
• Fixed Size Buffers
• Friend Assemblies
• Inline warning control
• volatile

.NET Framework 2.0

Windows Forms 2.0 Enhancements

• DataGridView
• ToolStrip
• MaskedTextBox
• SplitContainer
• ListView
• WebBrowser
• FlowLayoutPanel
• BindingNavigator

New and Enhanced Features of Building Presentation Layer Applications

• Enhanced Design-Time Support
  § Smart Tags
  § Snaplines
  § Quick Edit Mode
  § ToolStrip Designer
  § Document Outline Window
• BindingSource Component
• Data Component
  § A data component consists of a DataTable, a TableAdapter, and a set of TableAdapter queries. DataTables are strongly typed instances of the ADO.NET DataTable class.
• Asynchronous Programming
  § BackGroundWorker
  § Asynchronous Pattern for Components (LoadAsync and LoadCompleted)
• Misc New Features
  § Application Settings
  § Double Buffered Graphics

XML Processing Enhancements

• XML Related Features
  § Support for the XQuery language.
  § A new XML data store.
  § A mapping technology to map data that is stored in a relational database to an XML view, or a common language runtime (CLR) object view.
  § Enhancements to existing XML-related classes including type support on the XmlReader, XmlWriter, and XPathNavigator classes.
  § A new model for creating XmlReader and XmlWriter objects.
  § A new XSL Transformation (XSLT) processor.
  § Performance improvements.
• XML Related Features
  § A new model for in-memory XML data processing.
  § The XPathDocument class has been redesigned to be the primary XML data store.
  § Editing is provided by the XPathEditableNavigator class, which offers several editing options, and navigation capabilities using a cursor model.
  § The XPathDocument class also includes type support, the ability to accept or reject changes, and much more.
• New XML Query Architecture
• Type Support
  § The XmlReader, XmlWriter, and XPathNavigator classes have been updated to include type support. New methods on these classes enable you return a node value as a common language runtime object.
• New Model For Creating XmlReader and XmlWriter objects

ADO.NET 2.0 Enhancements

• Managed Providers
  § Server Enumeration
  § Asynchronous Processing
  § Multiple Active Result Sets (MARS)
  § Bulk Copy Operations
  § New SQL Server Max Data Types
  § SQL Server User-defined Types
  § SQL Server Notifications
  § Transactions with SQL Server Snapshot Isolation
  § Database Mirroring in SQL Server 2005
  § SQLXML 3.0 in SQL Server 2005
  § Provider Statistics
  § Change password in SQL Server 2005
• Disconnected Classes
  § Batch Processing
  § DataTableReader
• Provider Independent APIs
  § .NET Data Provider Enumeration
  § Provides support for enumerating installed data providers
  § Schema Discovery

ASP.NET 2.0 Enhancements

• Developer Productivity
  § New Server Controls.
  · Data Controls.
  · Navigation Controls.
  · Login Controls.
  · Web Part Controls.
  · Master Pages.
  · Themes and Skins.
  · Personalization.
  · Localizaton
• Administration and Management
  § Configuration API.
  § ASP.NET MMC Admin Tool
  § Pre-compilation Tool.
  § Health Monitoring and Tracing
• Flexible Extensibility
  § Provider-driven Application Services.
  § Control Extensibility Server.
  § Data Source Controls.
  § Compilation Build Providers.
  § Expression Handlers.
• Performance and Scalability
  § 64-Bit Support.
  § Caching Improvements.

Miscs

• 64-Bit Platform Support
• Access Control List Support
• Authenticated Streams (ssl)
• System.IO.Compression (Gzip)
• Console Class Additions
• Data Protection API (encryption)
• Debugger Display Attributes
• Debugger Edit and Continue Support
• Distributed Computing (HttpListener, SOAP 1.2, etc)
• EventLog Enhancements
• Expanded Certificate Management (X.509 Certificates)
• FTP Support (WebRequest, WebResponse)
• Globalization
• .NET Framework Remoting (IPv6)
• Obtaining Information About Local Computer Network Configuration and Usage (System.Net.NetworkInformation)
• Ping
• Programmatic Control of Caching (System.Net.Cache)
• Security Exceptions
• Serial I/O Device Support
• Serialization
• SMTP Support
• Strongly Typed Resource Support
• Threading Improvements (semaphore)
• Trace Data Filtering
• Transactions
• Web Services (Soap 1.2)

VS 2005

Productivity Enhancements in Visual Studio 2005

• Edit Marks
• Code Snippets
• Refactoring Tools
  § Extract Method.
  § Encapsulate Field.
  § Extract Interface.
  § Reorder Parameters
  § Remove Parameters.
  § Rename.
  § Promote Local Variable to Parameter.