Here are the coolest features, as I see it, in ASP.Net 2.0:

1. Cross Page Posting
2. Focus API
3. Validation Groups
4. New Client-Script Features

Yes, ASP.Net was a huge advance in the programming world. BUT – there were several (maybe even quite a few) annoyances that really bugged most of us. This list of Top 4 Coolest Features in 2.0 address some of those items directly.

Ok, let’s start with the biggest one of the four - . For all of us that came from Classic ASP world, this is a biggie! Though I really like the new paradigm of posting back to the same page, and use that most of the time, we’ve all found instances that really needed this feature.

if you go to the quickstarts, you’ll find an example of how to handle this. then, you’ll say to yourself, “Here we go again, with the off the wall, klunky code concepts”. However, don’t worry about it - I have good news.

First off, the posting page is NOT listed in the FORM tag. That’s not really a big problem, because it’s a property in the button control – the PostBackUrl property. For example:

<asp:Button
	id="button1"
	Text="Submit"
	onclick="whatever"
	PostBackURL="NextPage.aspx"
	Runat="server" />

Then, (here’s where the new coding concept comes in) according to the QuickStarts example, we should do this, in the Postback page’s Page_Load event:
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