New Language Options
ASP.NET gives you unprecedented flexibility in that it enables you to use any .NET-enabled language as your server-side code. Out of the box, you’ll be able to use Visual Basic, C#, JScript, and C++ with managed extensions as your server-side language. Note that we said Visual Basic, not VBScript. ASP.NET finally enables you to use a real programming language, not a scripted language. This offers a huge benefit in a couple areas.
First, you gain the speed of a compiled language versus an interpreted language. Because no time is wasted in parsing the scripted code, and because your code is compiled down into native machine code, you get a very significant speed increase.
Another benefit to using a real programming language ...
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