ASP.NET Web Application Development Technology

ASP.NET is a technology for web application development and web services development from Microsoft used in many software development companies. It is the constituent element of the .Net platform and the development of the older technology Microsoft ASP.

In general, ASP.NET is similar to the ASP technology, which allows web developers without problems switch to ASP.NET. However, from the inside ASP.NET differs considerably from ASP as it is based on the .Net platform and, consequently, uses all new capabilities offered by this platform.

Although ASP.NET takes its name from the older technology Microsoft ASP, it has significant differences for web application development. Microsoft company completely rebuilt ASP.NET based on Common Language Runtime (CLR) which is the fundamentals of all Microsoft .NET application. .Net web developers can write a code for ASP.NET using practically any programming languages, including those from the .NET Framework set (C#, Visual Basic.NET, и JScript .NET).

ASP.NET has speed advantage for software development in comparison with script technologies because at first addressing the code is compiled and placed into the special and then is only used without any time delays parsing, optimization, etc.

ASP.NET Technology Advantages Over ASP

• The compiled code is performed more quickly, most mistakes are defined already at the development stage.
• Considerably improved handling of execution time errors using the ‘try..catch’ blocks.
• User’s control elements allow software developers to determine widely used patterns such as the site menu.
• Using metaphors already applied in Windows applications, for example, such as control elements and events.
• The expandable set of control elements ad class libraries allows rapid application development.
• ASP.NET relies on multi language capabilities of .NET, which allows .Net web application developers to write the page code on VB.NET, Delphi.NET, Visual C#, J# and etc.
• The possibility of caching the whole page or its part for increasing productivity.
• The possibility of caching the data used on the page.
• The possibility of separating the visual part and business logic in different files.
• The expandable model of request handling.
• The expandable model of events.
• The expandable model of server control elements.
• The availability of master pages for creating page layout patterns.
• The support of CRUD operations while working with tables via GridView.
• The built-in support of AJAX.

Thus, ASP.NET is the richest environment for software and web application development.