ASP.NET for Web Designers

Let Me Show You the Shiny New Model: The ASP.NET Advantage

There are many new advantages to ASP.NET, but I will try to highlight the main points and how they solve some of the problems discussed earlier in this chapter.

The following points best encapsulate how ASP.NET provides a platform for power application development while addressing these nagging problems:

• Multiple Language Support

• Code Separation Support

• Server Controls

• User Controls

• Smart Code Output

• Deployment

Multiple Language Support

Multiple language support is made possible by an ingenious layer of the .NET Framework called the common language runtime. I could spend pages and pages trying to explain all that the common language runtime does with regard to the .NET Framework, but this ...