Introduction And History Of Asp.net

ASP.net is the next generation of Active Server Pages (ASP) technology. It is a web application framework which was developed to make dynamic and business level web pages and web applications. Web pages and application hosted on ASP.net hosting can be accessed from anywhere in the world making the management of information more efficient. Thats why most developers now prefer the use of ASP.net hosting. There were many more reasons why Microsoft developed this successor of ASP.

ASP was a result of Microsoft persistent hard work on expending its influence to Internet, beside the Windows based platforms. It was introduced in 1996 and brought along the better effectiveness of ISAPI applications. This system also made it easier and simple to use and understand the ISAPI applications. But there were many downsides of this system. It was not easy to debug and maintain, it contained unstructured code and it had interpreted script. With this system, software incorporation for web development was difficult as the web contains different types of technologies and it the understanding of these different technologies was necessary. When applications increased in size and in complication, it became difficult to maintain them as the amount of source code in ASP applications also increased significantly. Thats why the need for frameworks came up that could be used in developing web applications in an ordered and reliable manner.

This framework was the .Net Framework which was developed with the aim of creating widely distributed software with interoperability and with the functionality of internet. This framework supports many languages, has common platform for execution and has multiple class libraries. This framework has a great flexibility allowing the development of different high level applications with different functionality. The .Net framework made it easier to develop web applications. ASP.net uses this .Net framework and thats why the web pages and applications on ASP.net hosting can be developed by using any of the .Net languages.

In contrast of ASP, ASP.net with the help of .Net Framework allows the use of CLR (Common Language Runtime). It is a set of CLR code, whereas the ASP was an interpreted code. The CLR has the duty of handling the implementation of codes inserted by a developer. CLR has made the creation of web application easier as it lets the objects in different languages interact with each other. Thats why most developers recommend using ASP.net hosting.

There are many other advantages of using ASP.net hosting and these advantages have made more and more developers to use ASP.net hosting. The increasing demand of this type of hosting has led many web hosting providers to allow the ASP.net hosting services.