Changes to ASP.NET 2.0 from Beta2-->RTM

It is time to start preparing for the RTM of ASP.NET 2.0 and in order to do that I've had the team prepare a great paper that outlines the major changes that we've made since Beta 2.  Find it here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/beta2/beta2rtmchanges/default.aspx#ide

Next week, we will be posting detailed API x API changes since Beta2 which should help give even more insight.  I hope you find this useful!

Comments

• Anonymous
  August 20, 2005
   The following is from Brian Goldfarb’s post about changes between beta 2 – Keep the...
• Anonymous
  August 20, 2005
  Look at this page. These are major changes from ASP.NET 2.0 Beta 2 to RTM version. Via The major...
• Anonymous
  August 20, 2005
  Brian Goldfarb links to the list of major changes between beta 2 and RTM. It's a shame they've felt it necessary to default back to XHTML 1.0 Transitional though. What isn't clear (and of course you can't test yet) is what happens with DTDs. If you have an XHTML 1.1 DTD on your page does the <xhtmlConformance mode="transitional"/> setting in web.config ignore this and cause asp.net to spit out transitional code?
• Anonymous
  August 20, 2005
  So reading those changes does this mean XHTML 1.1 is gone? Vanished? The web.config setting talks about changing the rendering between 1.0 transitional, 1.0 strict and "the mess that was asp.net v1"
  
  Where's XHTML 1.1? Will you be ignoring the DTDs on each page? Some of us liked being forced down the 1.1 route you know, to remove it now would be very very bad.
• Anonymous
  August 20, 2005
  Brian Goldfarb has posted following link major changes coming up in the RTM version of ASP.NET 2.0 releasing November 2005.
  
  Check it out http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/beta2/beta2rtmchanges/default.aspx#ide
• Anonymous
  August 21, 2005
  You can still get XHTML 1.1 support -- it just isn't on by default (because we found it broke a lot of customers).
  
  To enable it, just add strict mode to your web.config file, and then make sure you use the XHTML 1.1 DTD at the top of your .aspx pages.
  
  Hope this helps,
  
  Scott
• Anonymous
  August 22, 2005
  It does Scott, thank you.
  
  Maybe it should be made blindingly obvious somewhere ;)
• Anonymous
  August 22, 2005
  Any status report on the whitepaper on providers? I am trying to implement some custom providers, and the docs and samples are pretty thin on details. Thanks!
• Anonymous
  August 22, 2005
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• Anonymous
  November 20, 2005
  The document about changes is not at the stated URL anymore... does anyone know where it is?
• Anonymous
  November 21, 2005
  Where did the page move to? I cannot find the B2 -> RTM page anywhere.
• Anonymous
  July 15, 2006
  Look atthis page. These are major changes from ASP.NET 2.0 Beta 2 to RTM version. Via The major change