This document provides an introduction to ASP.NET, including:
- ASP.NET is a Microsoft technology that allows dynamically generating web page content using code behind pages.
- When a browser requests an ASP.NET file, IIS passes it to the ASP.NET engine which executes scripts and returns HTML to the browser.
- ASP.NET AJAX is an extension that adds AJAX functionality, allowing parts of pages to be updated asynchronously without reloading.