.Net Framework Features

I have been searching in the net where I can get all the features of the .Net framework product. Here is what Microsoft has delivered as a release wise.

.Net 3.5 SP1 Overview

.Net 3.5 Overview

.Net 3.0 Overview

.Net 2.0 Overview

• 64-bit support
• Access Control List (ACL) support
• ADO.Net MSDN
  • Managed Providers
    • Server Enumeration
    • Asynchronous Processing
    • Multiple Active Result Sets (MARS) - Usage
    • Bulk Copy Operations here
    • SQL Server Max data types - varchar(max), nvarchar(max), varbinary(max) - work with large value types
    • SQL Server User-defined types
    • SQL Server notifications
    • Transactions with SQL Server snapshot Isolation usage
    • Database mirroring in SQL Server 2005 here
    • Provider Statistics usage
    • Change password in SQL Server 2005 here
    • Batch Processing
    • Tracing
    • Partial trust
    • Connection Pooling control usage
    • XML Datatype support
    • Integration with System.Transactions and Promotable transactions optimizations for SQL Server 2005
  • Disconnected Classes
    • DataTableReader object usage
    • Binary serialization for DataSet
    • DataTable as a standalone object
    • Create DataTable from DataView object
    • Schema Inference Engine enhancements
    • Namespace qualified Tables
    • Load method for DataTable and DataSet
    • RowState control (new methods SetAdded and Set Modified for DataTable and DataRow)
    • Enhanced support for custom defined types
    • IndexOf method on DataTable.Rows collections.
    • SetOrdinal method to change the position of the column in DataTable.
    • DataView performance improvements
  • Provider-Independent APIs
    • .Net Data provider Enumeration
    • Provider Independent API
    • Schema Discovery
• ASP.Net here
• Authenticated streams
• COM Interop service enhancements
• Console class additions
• Data Protection API
• Debugger display attributes
• Debugger Edit and continue support
• Detecting change in Network connectivity (NetworkChange class)
• Distributed computing
• Eventlog Enhancements
• Expanded Certificate Management
• FTP Support
• Generics and Generic collections
• Globalization
• I/O Enhancements
• Manifest-based Activation
• .Net Framework Remoting
• Obtaining local Network information - System.Net.NetworkInformation class
• Ping class
• HttpListener class
• Programmatic control of caching - System.Net.Cache class
• C# 2.0 here
• Visual Basic 2.0 here
• Security Exception class System.Security.SecurityException
• I/O device support - SerialPort class
• Version-tolerant serialization here
• SMTP support
• Strongly typed resource support Resource File generator (ResGen.exe)
• Threading Improvements
• Trace data filtering
• Transactions System.Transactions class
• Web services - asynchronous calls to web methods
• Windows Forms features
  • ClickOnce deployment here
  • Application Settings here
  • New Data-binding model
  • New controls
    • DataGridView control here
    • ToolStrip control here
    • MaskedTextBox control here
    • SoundPlayer class here
    • SplitContainer control here
    • ListView control enhancements - tile view, grouping and drag-and-drop item repositioning
    • WebBrowser control here
    • FlowLayoutPanel control here
    • TableLayoutPanel control here
    • BackgroundWorker control here
    • Asynchronous Pattern for Components here
• XML-Related features
  • XmlReader
  • XmlWriter
  • XPathNavigator

.Net 1.1 Overview

• ASP.Net Mobile controls
• ADO.Net
  • Data provider for ODBC, namespace System.Data.Odbc
  • DataReader object has "HasRows" property.
  • Connection object has "EnlistDistributedTransaction" method to perform transactions.
• Side-by-Side execution (MSDN)
• Security
  • AllowPartiallyTrustedCallersAttribute added to the assemblies System.Web.dll, System.Web.Mobile.dll and System.Web.RegularExpressions.dll (MSDN).
  • <> tag support in web.config for ASP.Net
• IPv6 Support for Protocols

Happy coding... !!!

~ Gangadhar Kotu