ASP.NET 1.1 training - what's new for ASP.NET 1.1

ASP.NET 1.1 is only a small improvement over ASP.NET 1.0, with most of the changes only affecting you if you are developing using mobile controls. However, if you have a bug in ASP.NET 1.0 there will always be a nagging doubt over whether it has been fixed in ASP.NET 1.1, so we recommend upgrading. Specific changes include:

Change	Details
Mobile controls	In ASP.NET 1.1 Mobile Controls are integrated into the class library and can be used directly
New ODBC and Oracle data providers	You can now get data from ODBC data sources and from Oracle as easily as you can from SQL Server and Access
New HasRows property	DataReaders now have a new HasRows property, which you can interrogate to see if a dataset is empty without having to read it
New SelectedValue property for droplists	You can now get at the choice a user makes in a dropdown more easily, using this property as shown by example below
Detecting dangerous strings	By default, all input to a page within the Request collections (QueryString, Form and Cookies) is checked against a hard-coded list of undocumented, but potentially dangerous, data strings

You can view a full list of changes in recent versions of ASP.NET by returning to our main ASP.NET version history page.