What is ASP.NET?

ASP.NET is free web programming framework, used to create web applications, dynamic web sites and web services. ASP.NET is a part of .NET Framework. The .NET Framework contains thousands of class libraries, used to speed up development process.

ASP.NET code runs on server side, and returns HTML code to client Web Browser.

Source code is compiled when page is first time requested. Source code always compiles to CLR (Common Language Runtime), but you can write ASP.NET web application in any of supported language. Most popular programming languages for ASP.NET development are C# and VB.NET.

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