All About ASP.NET

What Is ASP.NET

ASP.NET is a Web application framework marketed by Microsoft that can be used to build dynamic Web sites, Web applications, and XML Web services.

It is part of Microsoft's .NET platform and is the successor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) technology.

Applications developed using ASP.NET must be hosted on an Internet Information Services (IIS) server.

Advantages of ASP.NET

• Enables you to access information from data sources, such as back-end databases and text files that are stored on a Web server.

• Provides enriched tool support in the form of Visual Studio .NET integrated development environment (VS .NET IDE).

• Enables you to develop your application in any .NET language.

• Enables you to build user interfaces that separate application logic from presentation content.

• Enables you to manage Web applications by storing the configuration information in an XML file.

• Helps improve developer productivity and provides facilities for improving the performance, reliability, and scalability of Web applications.

ASP.NET Web Page Code Model

•  Visual Elements 
•  Programming logic for the page

ASP.NET provides two models for managing the visual elements and code:

• Single-file page model
• Code-behind page model