Is the next version of ASP.NET going to be officially 3.5? I've installed the 3.5 Framework and I'm starting a new ASP.NET project web with Visual Studio 2008. So far I've only found some references in the web.config file to 3.5 assemblies and 3.5 compilers that indicate a different ASP.NET version.

Last night I checked out Visual Studio 2008's new features as a HTML editor. It fixes all the annoyances I've seen with Visual Studio 2005 except that it still lacks a spell checker. Today I've discovered the ASP.NET Futures site with its QuickStart examples so I'm a bit confused as to how this relates to ASP.NET 3.5. Are some of the features going to be found in ASP.NET 3.5? Will anything be incompatible?

Base framework remains 2.0 as is System.Web. 3.5 is a set of new assemblies that are added on top of 2.0, such as System.Web.Extensions. There are new AJAX controls, ListView, etc. Please refer to ScottGu's blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu.