ASP.NET 2.0 Framework

The ASP.NET Framework represents a significant productivity layer on top of IIS and the ISAPI programming model. If you are familiar with ASP.NET development, you know that it provides the convenience of writing your application logic in a managed language, such as C# or Visual Basic .NET, and working with all productivity-oriented visual designers provided by Microsoft Visual Studio. The ASP.NET Framework also provides many other valuable abstractions that assist developers in areas such as state management, data binding, navigation, and data caching.

The ASP.NET Framework is implemented as an ISAPI extension named aspnet_isapi.dll. The basic configuration for ASP.NET involves registering application maps for common ASP.NET ...

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