ASP.NET 2.0 - Anyone looking forward

[wyrickj]

Anyone looking forward to ASP.NET 2.0? I sure am. I'm happy Microsoft is bringing back the cross form post feature where you can submit data to another form on a 2nd .aspx page. Also there is a new Call Back feature to kinda replace the Postback feature found in ASP.NET 1.x. Anyone that is a ASP.NET Programmer knows that the Postback feature consumed a lot of server resources and did page refreshes to maintain state.

The best new tools I am so happy to see is:

Login Controls
User Registration Controls
Personalization Features
Cross-Post to another form without using Postback
and many many more.

You PHP fans are missing a whole lot of goodies from Microsoft. I could not imagine coding a registration / login system from scratch. ASP.NET 2.0 will be a kick-butt framework. I was thinking of learning PHP but screw that idea. Lets get Beta 2 rollin MS so I can deploy my stuff.

[vivekar]

PHP is a good match for C#. I code both C# and PHP.

PHP bestows the programmer with the versatility of OO programming and the ease of procedural/structual programming. Beat that?

The power of .NET framework is that you can even code a .NET App using PHP ( if it supports CLS (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconWhatIsCommonLanguageSpecification.asp)). So there is a much room for everyone.

ASP.NET 2 deployment is a cake-walk, I agree.
One thing is the hiccup. Cost.

[wyrickj]

Well there making express versions of there stuff like Visual Web Developer Express. A lot cheaper then say Visual Studio 2005 by far. Still in beta but I am going to grab a copy this coming week.