Programming ASP.NET 3.5, 4th Edition

Chapter 21. Epilogue: From Now to vNext

So, that’s the core of ASP.NET within the .NET Framework version 3.5 as supported by Visual Studio 2008 (VS2008). You may believe that in these 1,000+ pages we’ve covered a little more than the core, or you might think we haven’t covered it all. Either way, this book contains a lot of information, and if you dig into any one of the topics covered in a single chapter you’re sure to find that there’s a lot more to the subject than you thought. That’s one of the beauties of ASP.NET. It’s relatively easy to start learning it and there’s always more to discover. Indeed, the folks over in Redmond Campus, Building 42, are always busy developing even more for us beleaguered web developers, promising richer UI experiences, more powerful data access, and clever integration with other technologies in the .NET Framework.

That’s where this epilogue comes in, with a short overview of what’s known to be in the cooking pot so far for the VS2008/.NET 3.5 web developer.

Warning

Disclaimer: This was the perceived plan for the next iteration of ASP.NET and surrounding technologies in mid-2008. Microsoft is not bound to this and may well change how some or all of this fits together.