ASP.NET Futures Release Showcases New Controls and Capabilities -- Visual Studio Magazine

ASP.NET Futures Release Showcases New Controls and Capabilities

Check out Microsoft''s early versions of new tools for ASP.NET and the Silverlight cross-platform browser plug-in.

By Chris Kanaracus
04/01/2007

Microsoft has announced ASP.NET Futures May 2007, a collection that includes early versions of new tools for ASP.NET and the Silverlight cross-platform browser plug-in.

The release expands dynamic language support in ASP.NET, adding Managed Jscript to the previously supported IronPython. The capability is built on Microsoft's Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) project, according to the company.

Microsoft showcased Silverlight 1.1 and the DLR at its recent MIX07 conference in Las Vegas. The technologies sit at the center of the company's strategy for rich Internet application development.

Also included in the Futures release is a pair of ASP.NET server controls for working with Silverlight: one for integrating media into Web apps and another for referencing XAML and JavaScript files.

Another feature is a set of server controls which can grab information about database schemas at run time and provide customizable display formats.

Microsoft has also developed several new ASP.NET services, including one that enables developers to add search to Web apps with a commercial search engine's API.

The company cautions that the features within the Futures release are early and experimental. It can be downloaded here.

About the Author

Chris Kanaracus is the news editor for Redmond Developer News.

Printable Format

comments powered by Disqus

Featured

Visual Studio 2026 Gives Copilot Built-In Skills -- and Makes Them Prove Their Worth

Microsoft is moving Agent Skills beyond bring-your-own instructions by shipping expert-authored workflows with the IDE, while keeping them off by default until testing shows their benefits justify the additional token use.
Copilot AI Billing Shock Met with Meters, Caps and Token-Saving Tools

GitHub is layering spending limits, expanded credit allowances and increasingly granular usage reporting onto Copilot, while Microsoft is reworking Visual Studio and VS Code to expose -- and reduce -- the cost of agentic development.
The AI-Powered Software Development Lifecycle

René van Osnabrugge makes the case that AI's biggest opportunity in software development is not faster coding -- it's reducing the friction everywhere else in the SDLC.
Copilot Usage-Based Billing Gets a Token Dashboard

Microsoft is keeping Visual Studio's new built-in Agent Skills switched off by default while a public dashboard measures whether their performance gains justify the additional tokens they may consume.