ASP.NET

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ASP.NET is a set of libraries for the .NET framework that makes it possible to create web applications and web services that are compiled using any .NET language, including Oxygene, and run standalone or as part of IIS.

ASP.NET is also implemented by the Mono project.

ASP.NET uses HTML files mixed with special tags, inline code and code behind with the ASPX extension. When an ASP.NET page is first accessed it's compiled to .NET code, the compiling has an initial delay, but once compiled the result is a very fast website. It's also possible to precompile ASP.NET projects and only distribute the binaries.

Extensions

There are several extensions to ASP.NET, the most well known are the AJAX extensions, which are incldued with VS2008, and the MVC extensions, currently only available as a beta.