ASP.NET 2.0 proposes to increase developer productivity by 70% with much less code and wide variants of supporting tools. ASP.NET 2.0 framework comes with member ship and role management to store and validate user credentials. It provides support for personalization process through which a user is identified and a profile is loaded or managed. On the User interface side ASP.NET 2.0 provides master pages for maximum UI inheritance, site navigation providing structured links, themes for UI skinning, web part framework for portal style applications and 45 new server controls.
