ASP.NET is built on the following principles:

• Ease of development
• High performance and scalability
• Improved reliability
• Easy distribution and installation
• Sounds pretty good, apparently the whole world looking for these goals, we will see how they tried to approach each one.

Ease of development

ASP.NET introduces a new concept, the server controls, allowing mode HTML tags have controls handled by the server that identifies the browser used to adapt to each browser. Tedious tasks such as data validation becomes easy and simple.

Choice of programming language, you can choose the programming language you like, by default leads integrated C #, VB.NET and J #, but could use another language.

Independence of the development tool. You can use the Notepad to the sophisticated and powerful Visual Studio. NET, through the free Web Matrix.

And best of all, the rich class library that incorporates no longer need to obtain components for other companies to send such an email, to "upload" a file or to generate graphics at run time.