What is the ASP.NET framework?

Answer 1

ASP.NET is the "new version" of ASP (Active Server Pages), and is part of Microsoft's .NET Framework.

ASP in general is a programming language that is used to create custom web applications - it was created and maintained by Microsoft, and is comparable to PHP.

ASP is used to pass information from the client (your browser) to the server, and execute commands between the two, to result dynamic websites. Such applications are used to create things like eCommerce Websites (Amazon.com), or really any website that is more than just information on a screen.

The .NET framework for ASP provides many improvements and upgrades that make programming in ASP faster, and more efficient for server resources. In general is gives more form and organization to the original version of ASP, but it's general use is for ease of use efficiency over that of the old version of ASP.

- Caleb

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Answer 2

The Microsoft .NET Framework is a software framework for Microsoft Windows operating systems. It includes a large library, and it supports several programming languages which allows language interoperability (each language can utilize code written in other languages.) The .NET library is available to all the programming languages that .NET supports.

The framework's Base Class Library provides user interface, data access, database connectivity, cryptography, web application development, numeric algorithms, and network communications. The class library is used by programmers, who combine it with their own code to produce applications.

Programs written for the .NET Framework execute in a software (as contrasted to hardware) environment, known as the Common Language Runtime (CLR). The CLR is an application virtual machine so that programmers need not consider the capabilities of the specific CPU that will execute the program. The CLR also provides other important services such as security, memory management, and exception handling. The class library and the CLR together constitute the .NET Framework.

The .NET Framework is intended to be used by most new applications created for the Windows platform. In order to be able to develop and not just run applications, it is required to have Microsoft's SDK for Windows 7 or .NET Framework 4 (or newer) or Visual Studio 2010 installed on your computer.

Answer 3

Asp.net is a system ,It allows you to develop desktop applications ,Web Applications and much more ,IT supports 30+ languages and use CLS class library system to manage these all.