| ASP.NET is a set of technologies in the Microsoft .NET Framework 
              for building Web applications and XML Web Services. ASP.NET pages 
              execute on the server and generate markup such as HTML, WML or XML 
              that is sent to a desktop or mobile browser. ASP.NET pages use a 
              compiled, event-driven programming model that improves performance 
              and enables the separation of application logic and user interface. 
              ASP.NET pages and ASP.NET XML Web Services files contain server-side 
              logic (as opposed to client side logic) written in Visual Basic 
              .NET, C# .NET, or any .NET compatible language. Web applications 
              and XML Web Services take advantage of the features of the common 
              language runtime, such as type safety, inheritance, language interoperability, 
              versioning, and integrated security.    |