Shanku Niyogi, the ASP.NET group program manager, has posted a list of features present in the beta 1 release of ASP.NET 2.0 that will removed from the beta 2 release.
I’ve composed a list of the features we wave goodbye to and how to cope without them.
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Dropped feature |
What to do? |
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Mobile Device Adapters for ASP.NET Server Controls |
The removal of the mobile device adapters means that the ASP.NET 1.x mobile controls no longer are deprecated. |
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PhoneLink and ContentPager Controls |
Use the ASP.NET 1.x PhoneCall control instead of PhoneLink (PhoneCall is no longer deprecated).
Create your own pagination control. See Dino Esposito’s article Creating a Pager Control for ASP.NET. |
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Site counters |
You must create your own click tracking framework. See Wayne Plourde’s article Tracking Visitors in ASP.NET. |
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DynamicImage Control, and the Image Generation Service |
(This is the feature I’ll miss the most.)
Create your own service with a ASP.NET handler. See Dino Esposito’s article Image Generation Service for ASP.NET 1.1. |
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WebPartPageMenu Control |
Write your own code to switch personalization modes. A code snippet is provided with the list of dropped features. |
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Access Data Providers |
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition is used instead. No direct consequence for the programming model. |
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DataSetDataSource |
Use XmlDataSource instead. |
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Built-in Global Themes |
Find a theme in the upcoming asp.net (the web site) theme gallery or design a theme yourself. |
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Web Administration Tool Profile/Reports Tab |
Create your own reports by accessing the profile, membership and other statistics data in the database. Microsoft will provide examples of how to do this. |