ASP.NET is a technology for building powerful, dynamic Web applications and is part of the .NET Framework from Microsoft.
ASP.NET extends the capabilities of a website from a poster board to a true web based application.
Your company’s accounting application can go worldwide, and your branch offices any where in the world can update the same server.
This means that Head office can instantly know what the whole picture is without having to wait for reports to be compiled.
Out in the real world ASP.NET makes building Web applications dramatically easier, for example it’s server controls enable an HTML-like style of declarative programming that lets you build great pages with far less code than with classic ASP or technologies like PHP or JSP.
As for Security, ASP.NET has built-in protection from many common forms of hacker attacks, including cross-site scripting, request-replay attacks and more.
Best of all, ASP.NET pages
work in all browsers including Firefox, Opera, Safari, and
Internet Explorer.