The Need for ASP.NET

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Chapter 1. Introduction: The Need for ASP.NET

When Active Server Pages (ASP) was first introduced almost five years ago, it was seen as an answer to the awkward techniques used at that time for creating dynamic content on the Web. At the time Common Gateway Interface programs or proprietary server plug-ins were the way that most of the Web's dynamic content was created. With the release of ASP 1.0, Microsoft changed all that. ASP 1.0 provided a flexible robust scripting architecture