ASP.NET

ASP.NET (software)

Developer(s)	Microsoft
Initial release	January 5, 2002; 22 years ago (2002-01-05)
Stable release	4.8.1 / August 9, 2022; 21 months ago (2022-08-09)[1]
Repository	github.com/aspnet/AspNetWebStack
Written in	.NET languages
Operating system	Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS
Platform	.NET Framework
Type	Web framework
License	Proprietary software[2]
Website	dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet

ASP.NET is a server-side web-application framework designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. It was developed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic web sites, applications and services. The name stands for Active Server Pages Network Enabled Technologies.

It was first released in January 2002 with version 1.0 of the .NET Framework and is the successor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) technology. ASP.NET is built on the Common Language Runtime (CLR), allowing programmers to write ASP.NET code using any supported .NET language. The ASP.NET SOAP extension framework allows ASP.NET components to process SOAP messages.

In 2016, Microsoft released ASP.NET Core as ASP.NET's successor. This new version is a re-implementation of ASP.NET as a modular web framework, together with other frameworks like Entity Framework. The new framework uses the new open-source .NET Compiler Platform (codename "Roslyn") and is cross platform. ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, and ASP.NET Web Pages (a platform using only Razor pages) have merged into a unified MVC 6.^[3]