Introduction
The beginning of Web development dates back to about fifteen years ago. Since then, numerous technologies have crossed our life at different speeds and have left different memories. We had meteors like ActiveX Documents and vivid stars like Active Server Pages (ASP). ASP in particular—I believe—marked the watershed; that was around 1997. ASP made it clear that real-world Web development was possible only through a rich and powerful server-side programming model.
Just as Microsoft Visual Basic did for Microsoft Windows development, ASP provided a set of server tools to build dynamic applications quickly and effectively and showed the way ahead. ASP.NET is the culmination of Web development technologies that have rapidly followed one ...
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