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When .NET was introduced it came with several languages. VB.NET, C#, COBOL and Perl, etc. The site DotNetLanguages.Net says 44 languages are supported.
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Scripting is separated from the HTML, Code is compiled as a DLL, these DLLs can be executed on the server. |
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ASP.NET is a server side scripting technology that enables scripts (embedded in web pages) to be executed by an Internet server.
- ASP.NET is a Microsoft Technology
- ASP stands for Active Server Pages
- ASP.NET is a program that runs inside IIS
- IIS (Internet Information Services) is Microsoft's Internet server
- IIS comes as a free component with Windows servers
- IIS is also a part of Windows 2000 and XP Professional
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ASP+ is the same as ASP.NET.
ASP+ is just an early name used by Microsoft when they developed ASP.NET. |
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language should comply with the Common Language Runtime standard to become a .NET language. In .NET, code is compiled to Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL for short). This is called as Managed Code. This Managed code is run in .NET environment. So after compilation to this IL the language is not a barrier. A code can call or use a function written in another language. |
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ADO.NET is stateless mechanism. I can treat the ADO.Net as a separate in-memory database where in I can use relationships between the tables and select insert and updates to the database. I can update the actual database as a batch. |
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The cursor position is maintained when the page gets refreshed due to the server side validation and the page gets refreshed. |
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The web is stateless. But in ASP.NET, the state of a page is maintained in the in the page itself automatically. The values are encrypted and saved in hidden controls. this is done automatically by the ASP.NET. This can be switched off / on for a single control. |
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Using special validation controls that are meant for this. We have Range Validator, Email Validator. |
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Client side is done by default. Server side validation is also possible. We can switch off the client side and server side can be done. |
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Microsoft's previous server side scripting technology ASP (Active Server Pages) is now often called classic ASP.
ASP 3.0 was the last version of classic ASP.
To learn more about classic ASP, you can study our ASP tutorial. |