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ASP & .NET
Microsoft's Solution for Dynamic Web Development
Mohammad Ali ChoudhryMilad Armeen
Husain ZeerapurwalaCampbell Ma
Seul Kee Yoon
Introduction
● Microsoft's Server-side technology.
● Uses built-in objects.
● Application, ASPError, Request, Response, Server, and
Session.
● ASP written in VB script, but can use other languages
using installable engines.
● Latest version ASP-3.0 in Nov 2000. Succeeded by
ASP.NET in Jan 2002
Sample Usage<html><body><% response.write("Hello World!")%></body></html>
● Simplicity and Speed over CGI and Perl.● Browser only sees HTML code.● Runs only on Microsoft platform.● Partitioning the Interface and Engine is difficult.
Microsoft .Net Framework● A software component which can be added to the Microsoft
Windows operating system. ● It provides a large body of pre-coded solutions to common
program requirements, and manages the execution of programs written specifically for the framework.
● The .NET Framework is a key Microsoft offering, and is intended to be used by most new applications created for the Windows platform.
● The pre-coded solutions in the namespaces form the framework's class library and cover a large range of programming needs in areas including the user interface, data access, cryptography, web application development, numeric algorithms, and network communications.
● The functions of the class library are used by programmers who combine them with their own code to produce applications.
● It brings into the operating system features and responsibilities that previously had been provided individually by programming languages and tools from various sources.
● The incorporation of the features into the operating system offers a number of advantages, including:– Assuring the availability of framework features to all programs written
in any of the .NET languages. – Providing to programmers a common means of accessing framework
features, regardless of programming language. – Guarantees of a common behavior within the framework, regardless of
programming language. – Allowing the operating system to provide some guarantees of program
behavior that it otherwise could not offer. – Reducing the complexity and limitations of program-to-program
communication, even when those programs are written in different .NET languages.
Microsoft .Net Framework
● ASP.NET is a set of web application development technologies marketed by Microsoft. Programmers can use it to build dynamic web sites, web applications and XML web services.
● It is part of Microsoft's .NET platform and is the successor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) technology.
● ASP and ASP.NET differ significantly. Microsoft has completely rebuilt ASP.NET, based on the Common Language Runtime (CLR) shared by all Microsoft .NET applications.
● ASP.NET has performance benefits over other script-based technologies because the server-side code is compiled to one or a few DLL files on a web server.
ASP .NET
● Encourages the programmer to develop applications using an event-driven GUI paradigm, rather than in conventional web-scripting environments like ASP and PHP.
● The framework attempts to combine existing technologies such as JavaScript with internal components like "Viewstate" to bring persistent (inter-request) state to the inherently stateless web environment.
● ASP.NET uses the .NET Framework as an infrastructure. ● The .NET Framework offers a managed runtime environment
(like Java), providing a virtual machine with JIT and a class library.
● Data access provides one example, and comes tightly coupled with ASP.NET. A developer can make a page to display a list of records in a database, for example, significantly more readily using ASP.NET than with traditional web technologies like ASP or PHP.
● Can cut down on development time by providing a rich set of features.
ASP .NET
ASP.NET vs ASP• Compatibility: Run along side ASP, uses new file extension “.aspx”.
• Language Support: .NET Framework, ADO.NET, C#, C++, VB and some 25 more languages.
• COM Object : Next Generation Windows Services (NGWS). No DLL registering.
• Event Aware Controls: Expose events processed by ASP .NET. Example: Load, Click and Change events.
• ASP .NET Controls: – HTML Server Controls:– Traditional HTML Tags– Web Server Controls:– New ASP.NET tags– Validation Server Controls:– For input validation
ASP.NET vs ASP
• Caching: ASP+ allows objects and output to be cached. Programmer decides what needs to be cached.
• Scalability: ASP+ includes maintaining session state across server, monitors processes and multi-processor balancing.
ASP .NET versus PHP
Advantages• Compiled code as opposed to scripted, pre-compiled
code increases web-site speed. • Strong Object-oriented design• Built in security tools to help defend against Cross-site
scripting (XSS), SQL injection, session hijacking, hidden field tampering, etc… Examples: ValidateRequest, ViewStateUserKey, ViewState
• Ease of development with .NET framework. Visual Studio 2005 provides a nice WYSIWYG IDE to aid for faster development.
Disadvantages• OS dependent means Windows only• Proprietary technology• Memory usage high depending on configuration
.NET vs Mono
Mono is an open source technology sponsored by Novell to allow UNIX developers to build and deploy .NET applications for different platforms.
Advantages• Framework is more complete than Mono which is
limited to only .NET 1.1 API• Visual Studio 2005 more refined then open source
toolkits
Disadvantages• OS dependent where as Mono supports many
platforms • Proprietary technology
.NET vs JSP
Advantages:• Ease of development with .NET framework. Visual
Studio 2005 provides a nice WYSIWYG IDE to aid for faster development.
• Reusability of code (web controls make it easy)• Performance
Disadvantages:• OS dependent means Windows only• .NET is a rewrite and introduces risk as with any first-
generation technology while JSP (J2EE) have proven track record
• Java, which is better than C# due to market-share• Free!
.NET market
[ Top 1000 Application Servers Survey, August 2006 ]