ASP.NET Related FAQS

ASP.NET allows you to use a full featured programming language such as C# (pronounced C-Sharp) or VB.NET to build web applications easily. ASP.NET is the technology to build web applications using .NET. It is integrated into .NET. ASP.NET engine is responsible for processing .aspx file.

Simply by translating your existing interpreted ASP/VBScript code to compiled asp.net/VB.Net code will give you a massive performance boost on existing sites. The other advantage is that it's quicker to develop. You must be doing it wrong No, seriously. It does take a while to pick up, but development times will be shorter once you get it right. It's much easier to write modular code and extensible code with the .Net languages and even VB.Net has a good object oriented structure, so code reuse is muh easier. You're almost forced to write modular code with asp.net.

ASP.NET derives its power from the .NET Platform and Services. Hence you need to install the .NET Platform for your ASP.NET applications. There is a separate .NET redistributable runtime (20 MB) available that can be installed on production web servers.

No. Though in production situation IIS is used, at the time of development, you can test your applications using ASP.NET Development Server, which is provided by Microsoft along with Visual Studio.NET and Visual Web Developer.

Asp.net 2.0 provides diffent folder for diffrent purposes the following table shows commonly used folders.

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