Introduction
Over the past few years or so, there has been a great deal of movement in the Internet development market and we have seen the arrival of new languages, development tools, methodologies, and standards. Microsoft entered the Internet development market late; you could say they missed the boat, as it were, or you could say they made a savvy decision by waiting.
At first, Microsoft provided a limited set of web development tools. The most popular and notable of these tools was Active Server Pages (ASP).
ASP made the development of database-enabled web sites easy. However, it lacked advanced development features, such as Object Oriented Programming (OOP), compiled code, portability, XML Web Services, and a specifically-architectured language/class ...
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