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ASP.NET is the next evolution of ASP (Active Server Pages). ASP.NET is a framework for creating applications that reside on a Web server and that are run from within a client browser. ASP.NET enables you to program Web-based client-server applications using tools and methodologies much like those used to create traditional applications.

ASP.NET solutions execute on a Web server running Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS). Therefore, to create ASP.NET solutions, you'll need to have some knowledge of IIS.

In a nutshell , ASP.NET is used to dynamically generate Web pages by serving up Web Forms (discussed shortly). For example, you may create an e-commerce site where a user may choose to view all products by category. Using ASP.NET, you could dynamically build and display a Web page containing the appropriate list of products. The server would execute the code to build the new Web page and then send the page to the user 's browser as an HTML document.

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