Introduction to ASP.NET
ASP.NET is an object-oriented, event-driven development platform for writing Web-based applications. Before .NET, Active Server Pages was the core Microsoft technology for developing applications that ran through the browser. ASP was a great platform, and it truly revolutionized the way Web applications were written, but it had lots of room for improvement. With ASP.NET, the gap between writing Windows-based applications and Web-based applications has been closed.
Because ASP.NET is based on the .NET Framework, the same classes in the Framework class library (FCL) are available to all .NET-based applications. That means the same coding model that you use to write Windows Forms applications is used to write ASP.NET applications. ...
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