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ASP.NET provides the following additional benefits:
Simplified development: ASP.NET offers a
very rich object model that developers can use to reduce the
amount of code they need to write.
Language independence: ASP pages must be
written with scripting. In other words, ASP pages must be
written in a language that is interpreted rather than compiled.
ASP.NET allows compiled languages to be used, providing better
performance and cross-language compatibility.
Simplified deployment: With .NET components,
deployment is as easy as copying a component assembly to its
desired location.
Cross-client capability: One of the foremost
problems facing developers today is writing code that can
be rendered correctly on multiple client types. For example,
writing one script that will render correctly in Internet
Explorer 5.5 and Netscape Navigator 4.7, and on a PDA and
a mobile phone is very difficult, if not impossible, and time
consuming. ASP.NET provides rich server-side components that
can automatically produce output specifically targeted at
each type of client.
Web services: ASP.NET provides features that
allow ASP.NET developers to effortlessly create Web services
that can be consumed by any client that understands HTTP and
XML, the de facto language for inter-device communication.
Performance: ASP.NET pages are compiled whereas
ASP pages are interpreted. When an ASP.NET page is first requested,
it is compiled and cached, or saved in memory, by the .NET
Common Language Runtime (CLR). This cached copy can then be
re-used for each subsequent request for the page. Performance
is thereby improved because after the first request, the code
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