Overview and Get Started with ASP.NET

ASP.NET is a free web framework for building great Web sites and Web applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. ASP.NET supports three approaches to build web sites:

• Web Pages : ASP.NET Web Pages and the new Razor syntax provide a fast, approachable, and lightweight way to combine server code with HTML to create dynamic web content. Connect to databases, add video, link to social networking sites, and include many more features that let you create beautiful sites using the latest web standards. 

• Web Forms: ASP.NET Web Forms lets you build dynamic websites using a familiar drag-and-drop, event-driven model. A design surface and hundreds of controls and components let you rapidly build sophisticated, powerful UI-driven sites with data access. Visual Studio Express provides a free development tool that makes ASP.NET development easy.

• MVC: ASP.NET MVC gives you a powerful, patterns-based way to build dynamic websites that enables a clean separation of concerns and that gives you full control over markup for enjoyable, agile development. ASP.NET MVC includes many features that enable fast, TDD-friendly development for creating sophisticated applications that use the latest web standards.

   

You need to install the following:

• Internet Information Services (IIS) 
• An Advance web browser
• Dot NET Framework 2.0 or higher
• Dot NET Framework Software Development Kit (SDK)
• Microsoft SQL Server 

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