This post is a quick overview of an Abto Software blog article.

ASP.NET services are gaining more momentum among strategic business leaders, and that’s across industries.

ASP.NET extends the popular .NET framework with tools and libraries for high-performing web applications. Although released in 2002, ASP.NET hasn’t lost relevance, and there are reasons for that.

ASP.NET framework: quick overview & history

ASP.NET is a web application platform, initially launched by Microsoft to extend the modern .NET framework. It’s well-suited for building dynamic websites, services, APIs, enterprise applications, web portals, and more.

Before enjoying .NET & ASP.NET capabilities, the community was using:

• Active Server Pages (ASP) – a server-side scripting environment to create dynamic pages
• Visual Basic – a high-level programming language to simplify software development
• Component Object Model (COM) – a framework for smooth inter-process communication
• ActiveX technology – a technology for embedding and sharing different components and objects

By combining these technologies, .NET and ASP.NET created a platform that outperforms every framework. Better performance, greater flexibility and scalability, and more modern features and protocols for security – the technologies are combining essential concepts to create a unified programming environment.

Diving into .NET & ASP.NET evolution, the following were critical:

• Classic ASP has introduced server-side scripting for dynamic web content, which provided the ground for more structured, robust capabilities
• Visual Basic has brought an event-driven programming model, which provided the syntax and features
• COM provided a basis for reusability and modularity
• ActiveX enabled interactivity and embedding reusable components and objects

ASP.NET framework compared with Classic ASP

The modern ASP.NET platform is composed of different object-oriented languages, class libraries, and more. That enables software developers to deliver ASP.NET applications with effortlessly configurable components, state management, and easy-to-navigate user interfaces.

When discussing Classic ASP, on the other side, the engine is dependent on interpreted scripting languages. More specifically, VBScript and Jscript languages.

ASP.NET latest version, 8.0: