ASP.NET is a new programming framework created by Microsoft for developing next generation web based applications. It is a framework that is built on the Common Language Runtime and it has introduced a new paradigm to the server-side Web development programs.
Asp.Net offer several advantages such as the following:
Performance: The code written in ASP.NET is compiled. This is a performance boost. The code written in .Net Framework is complied in Common Language Runtime. ASP.NET takes advantage of the early binding, it helps in just-in-time compilation, automatic resource optimization, runtime profiling, automatic memory management, enhanced exception handling, and caching services. This helps to improve the performance even before you start coding.
A problem found with Web site’s performance is the data-access. A database table spends majority of its execution time in connecting to the database and querying the information from the table. ASP.NET comes with a data-caching module. This data-caching module simply allows you to specify what data on an ASP page to cache and on what conditions it has to empty the cache and re-query the database.
ASP.NET comes with Performance Counters which the system administrators can use to gather application metrics. These performance counters can be used to measure the performance of a single instance of an ASP.NET application or all ASP.NET applications which appear combined on a system.
Tool Support : You have the facility to drag-and-drop the web controls just like you do VB controls, you can double-click and write the server code for the control. ASP .NET also supports XCOPY deployment which requires no registration or it does not stop the server, but supports dynamic DLL updates and extensible configuration using XML files.
Flexibility: Since ASP.NET is based on the Common Language Runtime, the power and flexibility of this complete platform is available to web application developers. The Common Language Runtime's Base Class libraries, Messaging, and Data Access solutions are all very easily accessible from the web. You can find that ASP.NET is also language-independent. This means you can choose a language that best suits your application, or you can partition your application across many languages. Above all, Common Language Runtime interoperability does guarantee that your existing COM-based development is preserved very much while migrating to ASP.NET.
ASP.NET currently offers built-in support for three languages, C# (pronounced "C Sharp"), Visual Basic, and JScript. ASP.NET is different from ASP in two major ways:
ASP.NET offers several programmatic enhancements over ASP, such as, it has Compiled ASP.NET Scripts. It allows Caching: Post-Back Forms: Server Controls, and Deployment. ASP.NET offers a change in the fundamentals of programming where as ASP followed procedural pattern of creating pages.
- ASP.NET has better language support, it has a large set of new controls and XML based components.
- ASP.NET provides increased performance as it helps to run compiled code.
- ASP.NET code is not fully backward compatible with ASP.
- It helps in Event-driven programming.
- it provides User authentication, with accounts and roles
- it has higher scalability
- above all it offers easier configuration and deployment.
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