Introducing ASP.NET

Microsoft .NET Framework, ASP.NET, Visual C# (CSharp, C Sharp, C-Sharp) Developer Training, Visual Studio

This article—Introducing ASP.NET—is from Build Your Own ASP.NET 2.0 Web Site Using C# & VB, by Cristian Darie, Zak Ruvalcaba. Copyright © 2006 SitePoint Pty. Ltd. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. This article has been edited especially for C# Online.NET.  Read the book review!

Introducing ASP.NET and the .NET Platform

ASP.NET is one of the most exciting web development technologies on offer today. When Microsoft released the first version a few years ago, many web developers thought all their dreams had come true. Here was a powerful platform with lots of built-in functionality, astonishing performance levels, and one of the best IDEs (Integrated Development Environments) around: Visual Studio. What more could anyone want? Indeed, ASP.NET showed the way for the faster, easier, and more disciplined development of dynamic web sites, and the results were impressive.

Time has passed, and ASP.NET has grown. ASP.NET 2.0 comes with extraordinary new features as well as an expanded and more powerful underlying framework. Not only that, but the basic versions of all development tools, including Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, are free!

This book shows you how to use all these technologies together in order to produce fantastic results. We’ll take you step by step through each task, showing you how to get the most out of each technology and tool. Developers who have already worked with earlier versions of ASP.NET will find that the latest version has changed so much that entire chapters of this book are devoted to ASP.NET 2.0-specific features.

Let’s begin!