An Overview of ASP.NET

Web applications have special demands. The way that browsers work, the nature of HTTP (the protocol over which most web application operate), and the separation of the server from the client all affect the nature of web applications and web application programming. ASP.NET provides the features we need to meet those special demands and create an application that we can deliver using web technology.

ASP.NET is not a new technology. ASP.NET 1.0 was released as part of the wider .NET framework more than a decade ago. At the time that ASP.NET 1.0 was introduced, Visual Basic was a dominant force in the programming world, and Microsoft created ASP.NET to bring the Visual Basic programming model to the web development world, ...

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