IronPython allows developers to use the Python programming language to build web applications in ASP.NET. It provides full access to .NET libraries and can integrate with C# and VB.NET. To set up an IronPython project in Visual Studio, developers can create a new web site and add Python files to handle events and access controls. IronPython code tends to be more concise than equivalent C# code for many tasks. However, basic performance tests showed that ASP.NET computed a factorial faster than the equivalent IronPython code.