I was going through my daily readage (via FooReader.NET. Sorry, folks; I can't seem to plug that enough), and I ran across a new article at MSDN about ASP.NET 2.0 Interals. Basically, it's a doc on the changes to the code-behind model, new compilation methods, and a few other changes to the architecture.

The two new features I'm looking forward to are the partial class concept and the "Deployment pre-compilation" feature. The pre-compilation feature will compile the entire project into binaries (so that there's no compilation again when the app is run). This is niiiice. Not only will it ensure security of my code, but it'll also speed up the process of serving the page.

I need to install the .NET 2.0 beta runtimes on my server so that I can play around with the new tech. I've been using Visual Studio Web Developer 2005 Express for a few weeks (I love the IDE), so the majority of my 'puters are sporting the new runtimes. I also want to take a peek at how controls passed through ParseControl() will be handled. I would love to pass a control and not have to use FindControl() to retrieve it (that'd make my Web Forms and XSL article obsolete).

I'm excited about the changes and new features. I only hope my web host will upgrade to 2.0 quickly once it hits final.