What Is ASP.NET?

A web developer platform, ASP.NET is a software infrastructure that includes most of the components or facilities needed for it. Different web applications and programmes can be developed with it for PC and mobile devices.

The initials ASP stands for Active Server Pages (ASP). ASP.NET helps developers to construct dynamic web pages and also facilitates in many other programme developing works including a programming model and software infrastructure. 

As a programme development system, ASP.NET has several tools, programming languages, and libraries. They help a programmer construct various types of applications. It functions on top of the HTTP protocol and uses the HTTP commands to set a browser-to-server communication.

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• What is HTTP Module in ASP.NET?

ASP.NET forms an integral component or part of the Microsoft .Net platform and its application codes can be written in any of the four languages which are C#, Visual Basic.Net, Jscript, and J#. It is extensively used to create interactive and data-driven web applications over the internet. 

The text boxes, buttons, and labels are used under this system to assimilate, assemble, configure and manipulate code to create HTML pages.

ASP.NET can be used to create several types of computer/mobile apps. It is very useful to create websites or portals. It is easy to use, mostly free, and allows a programmer full control while developing some programmes. 

It is preferred by the programmers for being an open-source, server-side web-application framework. In 2002, ASP.NET was released by Microsoft with its version 1.0 of the .NET Framework. It has been built on CLR.