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ASP.NET is the latest version of Microsoft's Active Server Pages technology (ASP). |
| What You Should Already Know |
Before you continue you should have a basic understanding of the following:
- WWW, HTML, XML and the basics of building Web pages
- Scripting languages like JavaScript or VBScript
- The basics of server side scripting like ASP or PHP
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| What is Classic ASP? |
Microsoft's previous server side scripting technology ASP (Active Server Pages) is now often called classic ASP.
ASP 3.0 was the last version of the classic ASP.
To learn more about classic ASP, you can study our ASP tutorial. |
| ASP.NET is Not ASP |
ASP.NET is the next generation ASP, but it's not an upgraded version of ASP.
ASP.NET is an entirely new technology for server-side scripting. It was written from the ground up and is not backward compatible with classic ASP.
You can read more about the differences between ASP and ASP.NET in the next chapter of this tutorial.
ASP.NET is the major part of the Microsoft's .NET Framework. |
| What is ASP.NET? |
ASP.NET is a server side scripting technology that enables scripts (embedded in web pages) to be executed by an Internet server.
- ASP.NET is a Microsoft Technology
- ASP stands for Active Server Pages
- ASP.NET is a program that runs inside IIS
- IIS (Internet Information Services) is Microsoft's Internet server
- IIS comes as a free component with Windows servers
- IIS is also a part of Windows 2000 and XP Professional
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| What is an ASP.NET File? |
- An ASP.NET file is just the same as an HTML file
- An ASP.NET file can contain HTML, XML, and scripts
- Scripts in an ASP.NET file are executed on the server
- An ASP.NET file has the file extension ".aspx"
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