ASP

Active Server Pages (commonly abbreviated as ASP) is a Microsoft technology for creating server-side processing of dynamic web pages. ASP provides a server-side scripting environment that you can use to create and run dynamic, interactive Web server applications. With ASP, you can combine HTML pages, script commands, and COM components to create interactive Web pages and powerful Web-based applications that are easy to develop and modify.

By Default, ASP uses VBscript as the server-side scripting language, but some others which can be plugged in and used include JScript (Microsoft's version of an ECMA language, such as Javascript), Perlscript (Perl derivative for ASP) and Pyscript (Python derivative for ASP) are also available.

ASP Platform

ASP has been around as Microsoft's answer to Java's JSP and other popular server-side scripting languages such as Perl, Python and PHP for quite some time (since the mid-to-late 90's). However, it was the release of the .NET platform which provided a large amount of attention and adoption of Microsoft's WebApp development stack through ASP.

.NET Framework

Most significantly, ASP.NET gave ASP the additional power of dynamically adding scripting languages (through @Language directive) and calling compiled functionality (through DLLs) to pages, among other major features. This dynamic interpretation paved the way for the introduction of C# (C-sharp) and

Pages with the .aspx extension use compiled ASP.NET (based on Microsoft's .NET Framework), which makes them faster and more robust than server-side scripting in ASP, which is interpreted at run-time; however, ASP.NET pages may still include some ASP scripting. The introduction of ASP.NET led to use of the term Classic ASP for referring to the original technology.

Microsoft .NET Framework: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/

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LINQ

Language Integrated Native Query (LINQ) is the leading C#/ASP option from Microsoft for data connectivity, import/export, querying, and reporting.

Language Integrated Query (LINQ): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/concepts/linq/

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Linq2DB ORM

Linq2DB: https://linq2db.github.io/ | DOCS | NuGet package

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NHibernate

Blazor

Blazor is touted as Microsoft's next-generation programming language and a potential replacement for JavaScript. It runs within the DOM together with HTML via bind attributes on the desired HTML elements.

The following is an example of a dynamic ToDo list in Blazor:

@page "/todo"

<h3>Todo</h3>

<ul>
    @foreach (var todo in todos)
    {
         <li>@todo.Title</li>
    }
</ul>

<input placeholder="Something todo" @bind="myTodo" />
<button @onclick="AddTodo">Add todo</button>

@code {
   private IList<TodoItem> todos = new List<TodoItem>();
   private string myTodo;

   private void AddTodo()
   {
       if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(myTodo))
       {
            todos.Add(new TodoItem { Title = myTodo });
            myTodo = string.Empty;
       }
   }
}