ASP.NET Introduction
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ASP.NET (Active
Server Pages) is a
server side web application framework, developed by Microsoft to allow
programmers to build dynamic web-sites, web application, web services.
ASP.NET is the successor of Microsoft ASP Active Server Pages (ASP) technology also known as classical ASP, was
introduced by Microsoft in 1998 as the first server side scripting engine.
ASP.NET is
build on top of CLR ( Common Language Runtime ) which enable to programmer to
write ASP.NET code using any .NET
supported language. ASP.NET code could be written in c#, J#, VB.NET.
Features of ASP.NET
Ø Compiled Code : ASP.NET code are compiled, which makes them
execute faster than classic ASP.
Ø Power and flexibility : ASP.NET applications are based on CLR.
As a result the power and flexibility of .NET framework is available to
ASP.NET.
Ø Security : ASP.NET number of options for implementing
security and restricting user to acess web application.
Ø Extensibility : ASP.NET provide number of options to create
extensible web application.Example you can create custom control and extend
default HTTP pipeline.
ASP.NET development tools
There are many
tools over internet to develop ASP.NET code
Ø Mono develop
Ø Sharp develop
Ø Microsoft Visual Web Developer Express ( we will use this )
In simple, you can use ASP.NET to develop dynamic web applications or web sites.
next I will learn more about its architecture..
