The evolution of ASP.NET in formative years
June 17, 2011 Leave a Comment
ASP.NET has been one of the most active web development platforms from its launch in January 2002. Since its predecessor ASP (Active Server Pages) had a series of issues that needed to be rectified it was launched along with the version 1.0 of .NET framework. It was developed and marketed by Microsoft to allow programmers for building dynamic web sites, web applications and web services.
In the late 1997 Microsoft was researching to invent a new web application model. Since ASP was running through many problems at that time. The ability to write clean codes in ASP was too less since the separation of presentation and content was not clear. Microsoft set up a team to find out what that model would look like.
Microsoft used the Code-behind Model to deal with dynamic program codes. In this model the code is placed in a separate file or in a specially assigned script tag. The extensions of code-behind models are usually like Pages. Aspx.cs or Pages.aspx.vb while the page file is Pages.aspx.The final extensions detone page language. In Microsoft Visual Studio this is automatically done. The code behind can be precompiled by the developers before deployment, using MS Visual Studio, which reduces time consumption by eliminating the need for just-in-time compilation in a production environment. It is more of an improvised version of ASP and is purely used for server scripting. It had a lot of versions released in subsequent years and is being worked on to better the released Network. Most of the web forms are based on ASP.NET and as all known is built on common language runtime. The latest versions are released to support mobile phones and other system applications.
