Latest ASP.NET Brings Performance, Coding Improvements

The .NET Framework 4.5 includes ASP.NET 4.5, Microsoft’s latest Web application development framework, which delivers several incremental improvements that can make Web sites and services more responsive and reduce and simplify code, making it easier to understand, test, and maintain. The new Web API framework in ASP.NET 4.5 provides infrastructure code that can speed the implementation of Web services, which are a critical component of many types of applications, such as those that run on smartphone and tablet devices. However, existing applications will require code modifications to take advantage of the improvements.

Two Primary Development Patterns Continue

ASP.NET allows developers to create Web applications by combining HTML, scripts (usually JavaScript), server-side controls, and code written in .NET programming languages such as C# and Visual Basic (VB). When a browser requests a URL representing an ASP.NET page, IIS passes the request to the ASP.NET engine, which executes the developer’s server-side code and controls to build an HTML and script response, which it then returns to the browser. ASP.NET applications can be deployed on-premises or hosted on Microsoft’s Azure platform or by a large selection of third-party service providers.