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ASP.NET is a web application framework developed and marketed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic web sites, web applications and web services.

It was first released in January 2002 with version 1.0 of the .NET Framework, and is the successor to Microsoft’s Active Server Pages (ASP) technology.

ASP.NET is built on the Common Language Runtime (CLR), allowing programmers to write ASP.NET code using any supported .NET language.

It’s available as part of IIS, the Windows Server web server.
Look for a host that offers Windows Hosting if you want to upload a ASP or ASP.Net website.

ASP.NET encourages the programmer to develop applications using an event-driven GUI model, rather than in conventional web-scripting environments like ASP and PHP.

The framework attempts to combine existing technologies such as JavaScript with internal components like “ViewState” to bring persistent (inter-request) state to the inherently stateless web environment.

Active Server Pages (ASP), also known as Classic ASP, was Microsoft’s first server-side script engine for dynamically-generated web pages.

Initially released as an add-on to Internet Information Services (IIS) via the Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack, it was subsequently included as a free component of Windows Server, starting with the initial release of Windows 2000 Server.

If your website uses classic ASP, you need to find a web host that offers ASP hosting.

ASP .Net in contrast to older technology (ASP), has a compiled model. ASP had an interpreted model where the web server will interpret the .asp page every time when a request for the page is made, just like PHP and Perl.

But with ASP.Net, the first time load of any page is slower. The reason is because the page gets compiled when the first person makes the request. But subsequently, the pages are loaded at a much faster rate as the server has to execute only the compiled code. This is very much in common with Java websites, where jsp pages compile once like asp.net.