Chapter . Introduction

ASP.NET is Microsoft’s flagship technology for building highly interactive, highly scalable websites. Some of the largest websites hosted on the Internet were built with the ASP.NET Framework, including the Dell website (www.Dell.com), parts of the Martha Stewart website (www.MarthaStewart.com), parts of the eBay website (www.eBay.com), the XBOX website (www.xbox.com), the MySpace website (www.MySpace.com), and the Microsoft website itself (www.Microsoft.com). If you need to build a highly interactive website that can scale to handle thousands of simultaneous users, then ASP.NET is the technology to use.

The ASP.NET 2.0 Framework is the latest version of the Microsoft ASP.NET Framework. The ASP.NET 2.0 Framework introduces ...

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