Microsoft® .NET Kick Start

Introducing ASP.NET

When Microsoft introduced ASP (Active Server Pages), a technology that enabled developers to utilize VBScript (a subset language of Visual Basic) programming language to develop Web applications, it was received with a great response from the development community. A simple inclusion of VBScript code snippets on the page within the famous <% %> made the page generate dynamic user interfaces. The success of ASP is probably one of the biggest factors in the success of Microsoft, “yesterday's” technology platform itself. Behind the scenes, ASP was implemented as an ISAPI extension that added on to Internet Information Server (IIS) and “magically” performed the task of running thousands and thousands of Web sites.

However, with ...