Evolution or Revolution?


As developers, we are all used to the evolutionary cycle of software product releases, where each new release adds a few features and cures a bunch of bugs . Serverside Web technology has followed this pattern, with products such as dbWeb and the IDC rapidly settling into the Active Server Pages we know and love today. ASP 1.0 was released in 1996, and although it has gone through a further two releases, it hasn't really changed that much until now. Be prepared to throw away many of those ingrained ASP programming habits, as you've an interesting ride ahead.

ASP.NET is where the revolution begins, because it is radically different from previous versions. Its first appearance into the world was at the Wrox Conference in Washington D.C. back in 1999, where impromptu applause showed how much the audience liked the product. Then in July 2000, ASP.NET received its first public release at PDC, where around 6,000 developers were bombarded with nothing but .NET. Consequently, they spent most of the week looking like rabbits in headlights rather dazed and confused with all they had to take in. The concept of .NET isn't particularly difficult to understand, but ASP.NET is very different from what we are used to.

That's really the whole crux of the matter. ASP.NET is just a part of the whole .NET Framework, but to use ASP.NET effectively you have to understand the underlying architecture. In the next chapter we'll outline this new architecture and the benefits it brings , but for now we need to look at ASP.NET.




Professional ASP. NET 1.1
Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)
ISBN: 0470384611
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 243

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