Slide 6.5: Microsoft ASP.NET technologies

Microsoft ASP.NET Technologies

ASP.NET includes several technologies and is constantly evolving. This page introduces several related ASP.NET technologies:

ASP.NET (newest since 2014)

ASP.NET is part of Microsoft’s .NET platform and is the successor to ASP technology. ASP.NET is a free web framework for building web sites and web applications using HTML5, CSS3, & JavaScript. Typical ASP.NET Downloads include the following software:

Visual Studio Community 2019,
ASP.NET and Web Tools 2019 for Visual Studio,
Hive ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) Drive 32 & 64 bits,
Azure SDK (Software Development Kit), and
Azure Cloud Tools add-ons for Visual Studio Community 2019.

Visual Studio (VS) Express for Web (till 2013)

To create ASP.NET web applications, you can use Visual Studio. Visual Studio Express for Web, a free standalone product, is part of the Visual Studio family. It is a development environment for building, testing, and deploying web standard applications using (i) ASP.NET, (ii) Internet Information Services (IIS), (iii) SQL Server, and (iv) Windows Azure.

Visual Web Developer (VWD) Express (till 2012)

VWD is one of ASP.NET development tools. VWD Express is a free Visual Studio web development environment for building and testing next generation standards-based web applications and services.

Visual Studio (VS)

Visual Studio is a development environment from Microsoft for creating web applications, as well as client (Windows) applications, Windows services, components, and other types of applications.