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== ASP and ASP.NET ==

Even though ASP.NET takes its name from [[Microsoft]]'s old web development technology, [[ASP]], it is very different from [[ASP.NET]]. ASP.NETIt has wasbeen rebuilt completely from scratch and is based on the [[Common Language Runtime|CLR]] shared by all [[Microsoft .NET]] applications. ASP.NET code can be written any of the different programming langauges supported by the [[Microsoft .NET|.NET]] framework. The most popular .NET languages are [[VB.NET|Visual Basic.NET]] and [[C#|Visual C#.NET]].

ASP.NET brings the concept of a "form", from the desktop development, to the web. [[HTML]] has the FORM [[tag]], but in ASP.NET, a web page is a [[WebForm]]. Instead of just writing HTML code into the [[HTTP]] stream (like [[Common Gateway Interface|CGI]], [[Active Server Pages|ASP]] and [[PHP programming language|PHP]]), using ASP.NET you can use and create controls like Labels, TextBoxes and ListView, and add [[event handler]]s ("postbacks") to them. And instead of [[render]]ing a window in a desktop, it will generate the HTML output which will be rendered by user's browser.