ASP.Net 2.0 Up Close and Personal 1

My pre-conference Lecture was a view on ASP 2.0. The first part was overviewing the new features of 2.0. There really are a bunch of things that they have made very easy. One of the biggest things is that they have wrapped much of the extra functionality with 'provider' interfaces. This means for example that we can use our own authentication and still use their built in controls just by implementing a provider interface to our API.