Chapter 1. What Is ASP.NET?
IN THIS CHAPTER
At the same time that many Web developers were just starting to wrap their heads around Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) 2.0, the development teams at Microsoft were hard at work preparing ASP.NET, the next generation of ASP. The development team, led by Mark Anders and Scott Guthrie, wrote ASP.NET from scratch, maintaining the good parts of ASP while radically changing its inner workings and extending its functionality to a new level. The goal was to enable Rapid Application Development (RAD) for Internet-based applications that's seamlessly integrated with the entire .NET Framework. The developer now has access ...
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