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An overview of ASP.Net 5

Microsoft’s flagship product i.e., asp.net framework has been on the success path since its inception due to its continuous effort to enhance its features as per the industry requirements. On the other hand, web developers are getting adequate scope to develop industry standard web solutions on the fly using asp.net MVC framework. Let us have a glance over the asp.net 5 features which help the developers in developing rich web applications with efficiency.

Enum support in Views: In asp.net MVC 5.1, there is an introduction of new helper method i.e., @ Html.EnumDropListFor (). This helper method can be used to evaluate an expression to enum type or a Nullable<T>, where T is an enum type. We can use EnumHelper.IsValidForEnumHelper() to test the requirements. Moreover, there is another method to manipulate a list prior to calling through EnumHelper.GetSelectList() method which return an IList<selectlistitem>.

Improvements in Attribute routing: In the latest asp.net MVC framework there is a new extensibility point i.e., IDirectRouteProvider to allow the asp.net developer for full control over how attribute routs should be configured and of course discovered. This class helps in separating overridable virtual methods in order to change the logic for discovering attributes. It also helps in creating route entries and discovering area prefix and route prefix. We can implement this class during calling of map attributes or map HTTPAttributeRoutes.

Bootstrap support: The latest asp.net framework gives a freedom to the web developers (asp.net developers) to use all twitter bootstrap features in their project. This time, bootstrap library is already built in integrated with the framework to develop rich web applications which can exert beautiful user experience and improved layout. Well as an asp.net developer, one can understand the importance of twitter bootstrap library in developing modern web application for different platforms and devices. This also helps in developing responsive web applications which can give the user same awesome experience irrespective of screen size, browser and platform. This is really a future ready feature for asp.net developers.

Cloud ready environment: Recently there is a tremendous gossip on the cloud computing technology which can be used to improve the user experience in small devices like smart phones and tablets. A user can take the help of cloud services to store different types of contents without any need of physical storage on his hand held computer devices. Moreover, all data of the user is extremely secure on the cloud with different types of encryption methodologies. Now, Asp.net web developers are having an inbuilt cloud support environment to develop enterprise standard modern web applications for the future.

No need to rebuild for every change: This has been an annoying experience for the asp.net developers to rebuild the application every time for a single change in the program to catch the effect on the browser. But this time Microsoft has given a special attention for this issue and they have fixed it. Now the expert .net developers can view the effect of the change on the browser without any rebuild operation just through a refresh click. This helps in quick fixes of the application by the web developer.

Cross platform: Microsoft understands the importance of future devices and hence it has put a tremendous effort for asp.net framework to develop enterprise standard web solutions for modern platforms. Now the application developed by asp.net framework can be used in different platforms like desktops, smart phones etc to give the same user experience to all section of users.

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