Using .NET For Web Development

Whenever there is the thought of web development, the developers think of PHP, Django or Python as the language for the new website. .NET looses out most of the time especially when compared to these range of cool kids. Always the last option to be considered, .NET has always been left out in the cold. This article would advocate some of its great tools like broad applicability and large community.

Connotation of .NET
Developed by Microsoft Corporation, the .NET framework is operable on the Microsoft Windows. The infrastructure includes language interoperability across several platforms and a large library. As contrasted with other language, .NET executes in software environment. Known as the Common Language Runtime, (CLR) the virtual application provides important services of memory management and security and exception handling. The library and the CLR together comprise the .NET framework.

The Base Class Library of .NET provides data accessibility, user interface, data connectivity, Web Application Design and Development, cryptography, network communications and algorithms. The Web Application Programmer produces the software by creating their own source code and coalesce it with the .NET application and other libraries. Most apps created for the Windows platform is developed in the .NET. Microsoft corp. has produced.NET software called Visual Studio that is an integrated development environment.

Therefore, by .NET we mean the CLR that is the virtual machine, on which languages are attached with which the base class library can operate. The framework is then constructed on top of that for Xbox, Windows, web and mobile. .NET is a runtime and this is the reason for it not being inherently tied to the particular platform. The Microsoft CLR is the most common. Mono is open source that functions on Linux and Mac. The platform also provides mod mono (Apache), monodroid (Android) and monotouch (iPhone) as alternate frameworks that run C# code.

Unlike scripting, interpreting per request language, as in ASP or PHP, C# is compiled. The developer does not have to worry about following naming conventions, folder structures etc to ensure auto-class loading. Further, the developers did not have to rely on the modules or add-ons to provide things like RAM based caching. The integration enables the developer to write modules for IIS in C#.

Using .NET will provide these ancillary benefits. A game can be developed for Xbox or Windows using XNA. There are developers who are using .NET but by integrating C# and the wider world of .NET, one can easily use this language ecosystem.

Tools available in .NET

Visual Studio: There is the free version and the paid version and can be easily installed with the Web Platform Installer.

Microsoft Bizspark/ DreamSpark: The access is free for three years.

Mono Develop: The above mentioned tools are for Windows 8, and if not in that platform, the Mono Develop is a good option.

The .NET framework has its own pros and cons. The article is establishing an introduction to this network.

AUTHOR BIO: Oft it has been established that Web Application Design and Development is an art. The Web Application Programmer would use definite languages, frameworks and modules to develop a website. .NET is one such language that also provides some ancillary benefits.