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Introduction

Microsoft is about the change the way we do web developmentagain. Just a few years ago they introduced their Active Server Page technology, otherwise known as ASP, that allowed developers to directly embed code within their web pages that was executed on the server with the results sent back to the client. While this type of embedded code was a dream come true to many developers who were fed up with CGI and the like, it still left much to be desired. From a developer's perspective, pages designed with ASP technology can be lengthy, difficult to read and just plain sloppy. Not only that, but the developer is restricted to using VBScript, a watered-down incarnation of Visual Basic or JScript, Microsoft's attempt at reinventing the wheel that is JavaScript. Neither of these languages is very powerful feature-wise, and being scripting languages, they are not strongly typed (simply put, strongly typed languages are those languages that require specific variable and type declarations and often adhere more strictly to syntactical and logical requirements) which tends to make these languages and ASP pages less efficient overall.

Thankfully, Microsoft has been well aware of these problems for some time. In fact, they already have a solution, and it is called Microsoft .NET (pronounced "dot Net"). .NET is poised to offer a lot of value to the web development arena due to its new approach to web development, which includes a totally redeveloped ASP called ASP+ or ASP.NET (and also ADO.NET and some other really nifty stuff!).

To clear up any confusion about .NET, we will begin in this article to take a detailed look at the .NET framework. In addition and more importantly, we will look at how it will impact you as a web developer and how it will really make your life easier if you are an ASP developer. The remainder of this article is not code intensive, but it is still going to be pretty complex. I will attempt to explain everything as understandably as possible, because I understand that conceptual + computing = headache for most people, including myself at times.

Contents:

What is .NET?
The Future of ASP
A Server With Memory
There is More!

The .NET Revolution
What is .NET?