ASP.NET

--ASP.NET IS A WEB APPLICATION FRAMEWORK DEVELOPED BY MICROSOFT TO BUILD DYNAMIC WEB APPLICATIONS AND WEB SERVICES

--ASP.NET IS A SUBSET OF WIDER .NET FRAMEWORK
.NET FRAMEWORK CAN BE USED TO DO VARIETY OF THINGS .WE CAN BUILD VARIOUS TYPE OF APPLICATION USING .NET FRAMEWORK

CONSOLE APPLICATION
WEB APPLICATION
WINDOWS APPLICATION
WINDOWS SERVICES

SO ASP.NET IS A SUBSET OF THAT WIDER FRAMEWORK THAT CAN BE USED TO BUILD WEB APPLICATION AND WEB SERVICES

FRAMEWORK-->COLLECTION OF CLASSES

ASP.NET 2002 1.0

BEFORE 2002 ASP [CLASSICE ASP] ACTIVE SERVER PAGES

WEB APPLICATION-->A WEB APPLICATION IS AN APPLICATION ACCESSED BY USERS USING A WEB BROWSER.

IE
CHROME
FIREFOX
SAFARI
NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR

GOOGLE.COM IS A WEB APPLICATION
--ANY APPLICATION THAT CAN BE ACCESSED BY USING WEB BROWSER THAT IS CALLED WEB APPLICATION


--WEB APPLICATION JUST NEEDS TO BE INSTALLED ONLY ON WEB SERVER.
--WHERE AS DESKTOP APPLICATION NEEDS TO BE INSTALLED ON EVERY COMPUTER WHERE YOU WANT TO ACCESS THEM.
--ONLY A BROWSER IS REQUIRED ON THE CLIENT MACHINE TO ACCESS A WEB APPLICATION
--ACCESSIBLE FROM ANYWHERE ,PROVIDED THERE IS INTERNET
--CROSS PLATFORM

--WEB APPLICATION WORK ON CLIENT/SERVER  ARCHITECTURE
--ON THE CLIENT ALL YOU NEED IS A BROWSER,THAT CAN UNDERSTAND HTML.
--ON THE SERVER SIDE WEB APPLICATION RUNS UNDER MICROSOFT INTERNET INFORMATION SERVICES.