Work With ASP.NET

ASP.NET

ASP.NET is termed as Active Server Packages.Network Enable Technologies.
ASP.NET is a technology which is used to develop  web applications.Web Applications comprises of  web servers and web browsers.
A web server is simply a computer program that dispenses web pages as they are requested.
A web browser is used to access the web applications from the server.The output of the web application will be on Web browser. 
Here Web server is server side which is installed on server machine.
Eg : IIS, Tomcat, Apache

IIS, Internet Information Service is a web server for all ASP.NET web applications. Web application is application that was hosted on single server. Here it also includes distributed application which is hosted on multiple servers.

ASP.NET is comprised of some softwares that are required to develop the technology.

Softwares that are required to develop to work with ASP.NET

1.IIS(Internet Information Services)
2.Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio-2008 
3.Microsoft Visual Studio Editor-2010

Steps To Install IIS In Windows XP

Step-1 : Keep XP service pack-2 cd in cd-drive and follow the below steps.
Step-2 : Go to start and click on settings, select control panel and go to Add/Remove programs
Step-3 : Check the checkbox Internet /information Service to be checked.
Step-4 : Click Next --->Next ---> Finish

To check whether IIS is installed or not just go to start and on run type inetmgr  and click OK. 
If a window is open with Internet Information services then we can confirm that IIs is installed.

Steps To Install IIS In Windows 7/8 

Step-1 : Keep XP service pack-2 cd in cd-drive and follow the below steps.
Step-2 : Go to start and click on settings, select control panel and go to Programs and Features.Now turn windows features On/Off.
Step-3 : Select Internet Information Services.
Step-4 : Click Next --->Next ---> Finish

However the another thing to discuss is Microsoft  Visual Studio Editor.

Microsoft  Visual Studio Editor
It is a develop environment which is used to develop different applications in .NET.

.NET Framework

It is a run time environment environment which is used used to execute the programs that was developed by using visual studio editor.

.NET Framework 1.0 ---> 2000 --->Microsoft Visual Studio 2000

.NET Framework 1.1---> 2003 --->Microsoft Visual Studio 2003

.NET Framework 2.0 ---> 2005 --->Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

.NET Framework 3.5 ---> 2008 --->Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

.NET Framework 4.0 ---> 2010 --->Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

.NET Framework 4.5 ---> 2012 --->Microsoft Visual Studio 2012

Steps To Work With Microsoft Visual Studio Editor

step-1 : Go to start, select programs and click Microsoft Visual Studio 2010  and  again  Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.

step-2 : Go to start and on run type devenv  and click OK.

step-3 : Create shortcut on the desktop.

Then here : go to-->start-->run-->devenv-->OK

  Now you can click on File, select New and click website.

You can select language as visual studio c# and template as ASP.NET Empty Website.

Then you will be displayed with different windows that are available on Visual Studio Editor . Some of them are :

•  Design Window
• Source Window
• Business Logic Window or Code Window
• Split Window 
• Tool Box Window
• Properties Window
• Events Window  
• Solution Explorer
• Server  Explorer
• Error List

So these would be activities that would be practised by an user in work with ASP.NET.

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