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ASP.NET attempts to simplify developers' transition from [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] application development to web development by allowing them to build pages composed of ''[[control]]s'' similar to a Windows [[user interface]]. A web control, such as a ''button'' or ''label'', functions in very much the same way as its Windows counterpart: code can assign its properties and trigger its events. Controls know how to render themselves: whereas Windows controls draw themselves to the screen, web controls produce segments of [[HTML]] which form part of the resulting page sent to the end-user's browser.

ASP.NET encourages the programmer to develop applications using an [[Event-driven programming|event-driven]] [[Graphical user interface|GUI]] paradigm, rather than in the conventional web [[Scripting programming language|scripting]] fashion. The framework attempts to combine existing technologies such as [[JavascriptJavaScript]] with internal components like "Viewstate" to bring persistent (inter-request) state to the inherently [[Stateless server|stateless]] web environment.

ASP.NET uses the [[.NET Framework]] as an infrastructure. The .NET Framework offers a managed runtime environment (like [[Java platform|Java]]), providing a [[virtual machine]] with [[Just-in-time|JIT]] and a [[class library]].