ASP.NET System Requirements

Recall that your browser doesn't know or care that your Web site uses ASP.NET Web pages. (From here on throughout this book, dynamic Web pages that are executed by the ASP.NET engine are referred to as ASP.NET Web pages.) However, for a Web server to be able to execute ASP.NET Web pages, it needs to have the ASP.NET engine (which is what executes the ASP.NET Web page) installed. In order to install the ASP.NET engine, the computer must be running Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows XP, or Microsoft Windows Server 2003.

Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 is Microsoft's latest Windows variant. This version of Windows ...

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