On the ASP.NET roadmap session we were shown technologies that today make the .NET experience more rich, but aren’t part of the current version ASP.NET. I’m talking about the ASP.NET Dynamic Data, JQuery, MVC, Web Forms, control Toolkit etc. These technologies, that are currently available, will be fully integrated and improved in ASP.NET 4.0. I’ll make sure to post some articles on each of them soon, if time allows

So, what are these technologies?

ASP.NET Dynamic Data can be described in quick words as a technlogy that enables you to really quickly build data driven web-sites that work against a LINQ to SQL (and in the future LINQ to Entities) object model – and optionally allows you to-do this without having to build any pages manually.

JQuery is a javascript library that simplifies how to traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add AJAX.

MVC stands for Model-View-Controller and it’s a pattern that separates the modeling of the domain. I personally haven’t used it yet, it’s an optional way of doing things in the upper layer, but I’m thinking in giving it a try in a simple project.

ASP.NET Web Forms are the User Interface (UI) elements that give your Web applications their look and feel. Web Forms are similar to Windows Forms in that they provide properties, methods, and events for the controls that are placed onto them. However, these UI elements render themselves in the appropriate markup language required by the request, e.g. HTML.

ASP.NET Control Toolkit – The Control Toolkit is a set of controls available on codeplex that are bund to be improved, extended, and integrated within the next release of the ASP.NET platform. You have, for instance, a Calendar control, an Accordeon control for displaying collapsable sections in a page with effects, masked textbox, etc.