Brief understanding of .NET Framework Versions

In .NET 4.0 i.e Visual Studio 2010 following are the new concepts embedded

1. Output cache extensibility
2. Session state compression
3. view state mode for individual control
4. Page.MetaKeyword and Page.MetaDescription properties
5. Response.RedirectPermanent method
6. Routing in ASP.NET
7. Increase the URL character length
8. New syntax for Html Encode
9. Predictable Client IDs
10. Web.config file refactoring
11. Auto-Start ASP.NET applications
12. Improvements on Microsoft Ajax Library.

In .NET Version 3.5, Visual Studio 2008 following are the features updates.

1. List view Control
2. DataPager control
3. Silverlight
4. Linq
5. Datalist

In .NET Version 2.0,Visual Studio 2005 following are the features updates.

1. Master Pages
2. Grid view Control