Top 10 Features in ASP.NET 4.5

1. Bundling and Minification Feature

The newly introduced bundling and minification feature help to bundle and minimize the size of the java and CSS scripts and style sheets in the user application. This feature offers a great impact on the performance of user web application as a whole. The user has now a System.Web.Optimization name space that provides support for bundling and minification of files for the entire project. Once a user creates a new project in ASP.NET 4.5, these lines will be visible to the user in Global.asax file.

2. Strongly Typed Data Controls

In ASP.NET 4.5, users have data controls that can be strongly typed. The user will get intelligence - the user just needs to assign the Item Type property to a model which is going to be associated with the data controls used in user .aspx pages section.

3. Model Binding - Isolating the Web Form from the Model

The Model binding feature in ASP.NET 4.5 enables developers to develop Web Forms that are independent of the Model that renders the view. The biggest advantage of using Model Binding is that user can easily do unit test the methods. In which ASP.NET 4.5 support for model binding is provided through the name of the ‘System.Web.ModelBinding’ name space. This name space has the value provider classes like Control Attribute, Query String Attribute.

4. Value Providers

ASP.NET4.5 provides many Value Providers that can be used to filter data. These are Query string, Session, Cookie, Control Value. The user can also have their custom value providers develop by them for their internal use.

5. Support for OpenID in OAuth Logins

ASP.NET 4.5 provides support for OpenID or OAuth logins - User can easily use external services to log in to their application. Like ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET 4.5 enables developers to register OAuth provider in the App_Start/AuthConfig.Cs file.

6. Support for Improved Paging in ASP.NET 4.5 GridView Control

Pagination support in ASP.NET 4.5 GridView control has been improved a lot since it previous version in ASP.NET 4.5 GridView.Allowing Custom Paging property provides excellent support for paging and sorting the web pages through large amounts of data efficiently and the user can see the properly.

7. Enhanced Support for Asynchronous Programming

ASP.NET 4.5 provides excellent support in asynchronous programming – developers can read and write HTTP requests and responses without the need of Operating System threads. Also, the user has support for two new keywords - await and async.

8. Support for Web Sockets

HTML5 WebSockets allow developers to perform duplex communication between the client browser and the web server. ASP.NET 4.5 and IIS 8 provide support for WebSocket protocol - user can now take benefit of WebSockets in their ASP.NET web applications.

9. Support for HTML5 Form Types

ASP.NET 4.5 offers excellent support for HTML5 form types. The new controls are available for developers - email URL, number range, Date pickers which allow formats like, i.e., date, month, week, time, date time.

10. ASP.NET Web API

This is included in ASP.NET MVC 4 and ASP.NET Win forms. This new feature of Web API helps developers build and consume HTTP services easily in any project. Thus, there are many .net development firms which offer development using this latest version.

References

• https://www.developer.com/net/asp/top-10-features-in-asp.net-4.5.html
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/whats-new/
• http://www.dotnetcurry.com/dotnet/968/new-features-dotnet-framework-451