To leverage the power of the World Wide Web, Microsoft .NET provides you to create web applications with ASP.NET. ASP.NET is not only the next version of ASP. To build enterprise-class Web applications, ASP.NET provides the services necessary for developers. ASP.NET is a platform, which includes design-time objects and controls and a run-time execution context for developing and running applications on a Web server.
ASP.NET is an important part of the .NET Framework. The entire .NET Framework is available to any ASP.NET application. Developers can easily access the benefits of these technologies, which include the managed common language runtime environment, type safety, inheritance, and so on.