Migrating from ASP to ASP.NET - What is the .NET Framework?

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If you’re unfamiliar with the .NET Framework, it is an object-oriented development platform that can be used to create Web-based, Client-Server, XML Web Service, and wireless applications. The framework offers numerous development, scalability, and architectural advantages over Microsoft’s previous Component Object Model (COM) approach through providing a central execution engine referred to as the Common Language Runtime (CLR). Because the .NET framework and the CLR do not rely on the Windows registry (no more regsvr32.exe), developers can easily deploy .NET applications without being forced to create elaborate setup packages. .NET’s CLR handles virtually all aspects of code execution. This includes handling memory management and garbage collection, supporting multiple languages such as C# and VB.NET, managing security, and performing Just-in-Time (JIT) code compilation. Although CLR specific topics won’t be covered in this article, you can read more about them in the .NET Software Developers Kit (SDK) that is freely downloadable from http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/howtoget.aspx.

[Editor's Note: For more information about .NET, check out What is the .NET Framework?, by Niranjan Babu Kalla]

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