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Why ASP.NET?
Microsoft .NET is a free technology that allows developers to create dynamic web applications. It can be used to create anything from small, personal websites through to large, enterprise-class web applications.
.NET 1.0 was the first version and it was released on January 16, 2002. As object-oriented Web application development it supported inheritance, polymorphism and other standard OOP features. The developers can make use of DLL class libraries and other features of the Web server.
.NET 1.1 was released on April 24, 2003. It introduced Mobile controls and Automatic input validation.
.NET 2 was released on November 7, 2005. It is the first major update to the .NET framework and includes solutions to common problems encountered with version 1.1 as well as new features that greatly increase the flexibility and functionality of Web development. Some of the major changes are:
– Improve the reliability and usability of Web applications;
– Reduce the number of lines of code you have to write;
– Offer user features to personalize Web applications;
– Provide enhanced design features.
.NET 3.5 was released on November 19, 2007. Along with it, was released Visual Studio 2008. It uses the same engine as that of .NET 2.0, but with some extra features added on as AJAX, The ListView and DataPager Controls, LINQ (Language Integrated Query), Merge Tool, and some new Assemblies.
.NET 4 was released on April 12, 2010. Along with it, was released Visual Studio 2010. It introduces many features that improve core .NET services such as output caching and session state storage. Web Forms has been a core feature since the release of 1.0. Many enhancements have been in this area for .NET 4 as the ability to set meta tags, more control over view state, more control over rendered HTML in the FormView and ListView controls etc… MVC was introduced as an add-on framework to .NET 3.5 SP1 in March 2009. Visual Studio 2010 includes MVC 2, which includes new features and capabilities.
.NET 4.5 was released on August 15, 2012. Along with it, was released Visual Studio 2012. Some of the new features and enhancements that are being introduced in it were Asynchronously Reading and Writing HTTP Requests and Responses, Improvements to HttpRequest handling, New Request Validation Features, HTML 5 Updates, MVC 4, Web Pages 2 etc…
.NET 4.6 was released on July 20, 2015. Along with it, was released Visual Studio 2015 and Entity Framework 7 Previews for Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10. Some of the most important new features were HTTP/2 support when running on Windows 10 and More async task-returning APIs.
.NET 4.7 was released on April 11, 2017. It was released with the Windows 10 Creators Update. Some of the newly introduced features are – default operating system support for TLS protocols, Object Cache Extensibility, Ability to configure the default message security settings to TLS 1.1 or TLS 1.2…
.NET 4.8 was released on April 18, 2019. The .NET Framework 4.8 introduces new features in the following areas: JIT and NGEN Improvements, Updated ZLib, Reducing FIPS Impact on Cryptography…
.NET Core was released along with Visual Studio 2015 and MVC 6. It includes a lot of new and improved features as New flexible and cross-platform runtime; Cloud-ready environment configuration; Ability to see changes without re-building the project; Ability to self-host or host on IIS; New modular HTTP request pipeline; Unified programming model that combines MVC, Web API, and Web Pages; Side-by-side versioning of the .NET Framework; New tools in Visual Studio 2015. The latest .NET Core version is 3.1.
.NET 5 is the next version of .NET Core and the future of the .NET platform. It has a lots of great new features and improvements, including: MVC model binding improvements, including support for C# 9 record types, Blazor Server & Blazor WebAssembly support, Built-in OpenAPI and Swagger UI support for Web APIs, Azure AD authentication with MIcrosoft.Identity.WebHTTP/2 and gRPC performance improvements, Auto browser refresh with dotnet watch etc…
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