.NET Framework 3.5 : What's new in ASP.NET

• Support for enabling existing ASP.NET 2.0 pages for AJAX
• Creation of ASMX & WCF based web services and consuming them from AJAX Library
• ASP.NET server side application services like authentication, roles management exposed as web services
• ASP.NET Merge Tool - a new tool for merging pre-compiled assemblies
• New ListView control which supports edit, insert, delete, sorting & paging
• ASP.NET integrated with core IIS 7.0 which makes ASP.NET services like authentication & caching available for other content types also.
• Microsoft AJAX Library to support AJAX based web development