Introducing ASP.NET
ASP.NET is Microsoft's answer to the aforementioned problems and many others that were not explicitly stated. It is a fundamental rewrite of ASP that has been in process for more than two years. The ASP team took a close look at the problems facing Web developers and created a brand new platform in the spirit of traditional ASP to solve those problems. Having used ASP.NET for a considerable amount of time, we can conclusively say they hit a home run with this release.
Platform Architecture
ASP.old was an Internet Server Application Programming Interface (ISAPI) filter that was written specifically to interact with Internet Information Server (IIS). It was monolithic in nature and relied very little on external services.
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