ASP.NET

ASP.NET provides a framework for building Web applications using HTML and code. In many ways, it is similar to JSP or PHP, at least in that it generally consists of HTML pages with code interspersed in them. You create an ASP.NET page by embedding scripts in your HTML page. When a user requests an ASP.NET page, the server executes the scripts embedded within the page, and the output of the scripts is included as part of the HTML so that any browser can view the page.

ASP.NET supports any language that will run on Microsoft’s Common Language Runtime (CLR). This includes Visual Basic .NET, C#, and JScript (Microsoft’s version of JavaScript). The first time a user downloads an ASP page, the scripts in the page are compiled into a .NET ...

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