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Very please to see that Microsoft has included more web controls in ASP.Net 2.0

Welcome to new members:

- ImageMap control. This is great, I can now dynamically manipulate different hotspots on an image. I imagine something like geographical database and interactive mapping.

- Gridview. This is an extension to the Datagrid, but with more flexibility and access to virtually any embedded element.

- Treeview. Finally an official TreeView. I know some third party components won't be please with this. But what's about a Tab control?

- View. Hold on, this must be the equivalent of a tab control or multipage like the one provided by the MS WebControls.

- Bulletedlist.

- Wizard. No it's not an open door for Harry Potter fans, but a control to display things like step by step installation on the page.This will be great for application settings.

- PanelStyle contains now all the attributes like Scrollbars, HorizontalAlign, etc... I wonder if one PanelStyle can be applied to many Panels ?

- ...Field like ButtonField HyperLinkField are there to transform a field automatically.

- Menu control . I think this will be one of the most seen on ASP.Net pages. A relief when you know all the thousands of easy to complex solutions to embed a navigation in a webpage. I wonder if the Menu control is downsizable automatically for mobile devices ?

- Sitemap. The joy of building nice sitemaps and breadcrumbs for a site. Thanks for that

- AdType. If you're a fan of AdRotator for your advertising, now you can choose how to render the ad, as a banner a popup or a popup under the current page (not sure about the last one; what's the point with hiding a banner ??)

I am sure I forgot some. Do you know that most of other controls has some of their methods or properties changed ? Take the type Table for example.
Not less than 19 new methods and properties !
A lot of changes happens because now mobile classes are part of the framework (example Phonelink to create a text-based, output-only control that represents a phone number to call).


Who say ASP.Net 2.0 is not a big upgrade :-)