Foreword
The ASP.NET project began in December of 1997, shortly after the release of IIS 4.0. At the time, we had just completed a grueling ship cycle that included a major update of both IIS and ASP, and most of the IIS team was spending some quiet time recuperating from our recent product release. The month immediately following any major software release is often a good time for reflection, and several of us on the IIS/ASP team used the relative calm after shipping IIS 4.0 to look back, discuss, and debate the merits of the product we had just built.
ASP at the time was only 12 months old and was quickly becoming the most popular way to build dynamic Web pages. From an ease-of-use perspective, ASP made a giant leap over anything before it. Developers ...
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