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Using Tools to Develop ASP.NET Applications

Another problem with ASP was that the common development tool available for developing ASP-based applications, Visual Interdev, was very different from the regular Visual Studio toolset. That has a lot to do with the fact that the ASP programming model itself was very different from Visual Basic, which was the closest language-based Windows programming model. So far in this chapter, you haven't used any integrated development tool for developing Web-based applications. However, an integrated development tool would be very useful to develop, debug, and deploy rich and manageable applications. The convergence of the Windows and Web programming models and the fact that you can use any supported .NET programming ...