ASP.net
ASP.NET is a web application framework widely used by programmers to build enterprise-class dynamic websites, web applications and various kinds of web services. Developed and marketed by Microsoft, ASP.NET is the successor of ASP (Active Server Pages) with a completely new server-side scripting technology. It is a part of Microsoft’s .NET Framework that works as an extremely powerful tool to create dynamic and highly interactive web pages.
Built on the Common Language Runtime (CLR), ASP.NET allows programmers to write codes in any .NET supported programming language. Provided by the .NET Framework, CLR manages the execution of the codes that programmers write. ASP.NET code, unlike ASP code (interpreted code) is a compilation of CLR codes, which permits objects written in different programming languages to interact with one another making web application development simple and easily executable. These applications are globally accessible and lead to successful and efficient information management.
Advantages of Using ASP.NET
- ASP.NET quite drastically cuts down the amount of code that is generally required to create a large application.
- Since the source code and HTML remain alongside, ASP.NET pages are simple to write and easy to maintain.
- For its event-driven server-side programming structure, ASP.NET indeed makes development easier and simpler.
- As the source code in ASP.NET is executed on the server, the web pages become a lot more powerful and flexible.
- Using its data-binding and page-formatting features ASP.NET works with ADO.NET with ease and smoothness.
- Execution becomes faster, as a page get compiled by the Web Server when it is requested for the first time. The compiled version of the page gets saved by the server, so that the page can be quickly retrieved when the next time it is requested.
- The application source code written by the programmer remains safe and secured as the ASP.NET page produced HTML code is sent back to the browser instead of the source code.
- Because of the built-in configuration information, registering components is not required.
- The validation controls of ASP.NET allow automatic validation of information entered by the users without writing any code.
As the pages, components and applications are continuously monitored by the web server, whenever it notices memory leaks, infinite loops or any sort of illegal software or unlawful activities, it immediately stops those activities and restarts itself.