I guess you would enjoy C# more, just search for some Java / C# differences here.

The main difference however is in the ecosystem. C# has .Net, Visual Studio, Azure, VSTS resp Azure DevOps. This is superior stack that you won't fimd anywhere else - and it is very cheap if not the chepeast out there.

Java does not have it and depends on 3rd party products, which means more choices, but also a lot more mess. I just asked a Java developer sitting next to me - hey, would you help me to build this Java project? He tried and was not able because the project was using some other compiler. This will not happen in C#

I will show you below the pros and cons of each, and you can decide what fits you better.

Java EE pros:

• Flexibility
• Portability
• Availability
• Reliability
• Securability
• Accessibility

Java EE cons:

• Specification is a robust one
• Grows complexity
• Isolated long running SQL statements due to lack of indexes

C# pros:

• Integrates well with Windows
• Easy to find additional developers (very close syntax with Java)
• Easier to work in a team project
• Compiled language ( meaning that the code stored on a public-facing server is in binary form)

C# cons:

• Compiling code (code most be compiled even when you make a minor change)
• Needs a Windows platform to execute
• Microsoft stops supporting older .NET frameworks after a few operating system upgrades

Just because!

(Hey, it worked for my mother when she said it) ;-)

Seriously, let’s go through some reasons why you should learn ASP.NET Core.

Reason 1: With regular ASP.NET, it’s one of the most popular web frameworks out there. Second most popular to be exact according to BuiltWith.

Framework technologies Web Usage Statistics

Click on ‘The Entire Internet’ (on the right-hand side) to get a feeling of what web languages are out there.

The ASP.NET number is going to grow with ASP.NET Core.

Reason 2: Most companies built their business on .NET technologies in the 2000’s making it a reasonable bet that Core will be their migration path (translation: you’ll always have a job).

Reason 3: It has one HECK of a developer community to assist with any kind of issue.

Reason 4: It’s Super Fast! Days are gone when .NET was the old mare. .NET Core was rewritten from the ground up. Now it competes with the best with their performance benchmarks (I mention this in one of my blog posts as well) and they continue to improve performance.

Reason 5: Cross-platform, baby! Since it was rewritten and since Microsoft acquired Xamarin, what better time to make it cross-platform? Now, not only does it run Windows, it runs on Linux AND Mac.

Hope this helped.

(Don’t forget to upvote!) :-)

I have only been out of college for a year now and the company that I work for is primarily just computer technicians, and only recently have started hiring developers in order to expand their business. With that said, we work on all kinds of different projects and I have the freedom to try out different frameworks and languages with the various projects I work on (which is awesome by the way). Since I am pretty fresh out of college and like to stay up to date with things I have tried using nodejs and and several different JavaScript frameworks along with python and ruby and all kinds of other languages. In my experience, which admittedly is somewhat brief, C#/.net has the edge. And for several reasons:

1. C# (in my opinion) is just a better language than JavaScript. As I said, I have worked with several languages, and (I'm gonna sound like one of those conservative developers here), languages that have static typing has the edge over languages that have type inference/dynamic typing. At least for large/medium sized projects. If I'm wanting to do something quick and dirty then I'm gonna use python. But any project of substantial size I would use C# or Java or some statically typed language just about every time.
2. The tools that the Microsoft stack has to offer are incredible. Visual Studio is a freaking life saver. It makes development a breeze. Intellisense makes development actually fun, if you are just wondering what methods a particular object offers, just press ‘.’ And boom, an entire list of all the different things you can do. If you wanna know what exceptions might be thrown by a particular method, just hover over the method and boom, you have a description of the method and a full list of possible exceptions to handle. And that only scratches the surface of what visual studio can do, and visual studio is only one tool in the Microsoft tool belt.

I could probably add a few more reasons here but I'm on mobile and my wife keeps saying “you're still typing???” So I'll cut it off here, but in my experience the .NET framework coupled with C# is better for web development.

P.S That's not to say that certain JavaScript frameworks aren’t really useful. My favorite “stack” of development is using .net Web API for the back end along with Entity Frameworks to communicate with a SQL Server database, while using AngularJS and bootstrap on the front end.

Ideally, ASP.NET Core should be used for new projects. It has a smaller footprint, self-hosts and runs on Linux (ideal for running in Docker containers/clusters). That’s the good news.

The bad news is that it lacks a lot of key features. EntityFramework Core is very immature as an ORM, and the alternatives are worse. ODataController doesn’t work yet. There’s other minor annoyances too that I can’t think of off the top of my head.

Keep an eye on it, but I don’t think it’s quite ready for prime time. It might work for a smaller project, but then the benefits are marginal at best (unless you really want to host on a Linux server).

Let me keep it simple :

Both technologies stands tall on their own ground.

I depends on the coder if he/she follow best practices good plan, architecture both technologies will give desired result where as bad planning bad coder will mess up best of the best.

I have been working with .Net technologies for more than 9 years, Have also worked with Java, KSH Script, etc. and what i learned in all these years is that after a due time technology will become mere name for you, and later you will become technology neutral and will be handling multiple project targeting different technologies.

Only thing matters the quality and the knowledge acquired in your initial start.

Web development mainly has 3 parts:

1. Server side programming
2. Database management
3. Client side programming.

There are different languages and technologies to code in each of the above. So, which 3 languages to learn?

I suggest:

1. Server side programming : JavaScript
2. Database management: JavaScript
3. Client side programming: JavaScript

That's right.

Node.js platform is evolving like anything and is now a very powerful candidate for server side scripting in JavaScript. Frameworks like express would make your programming even more charming.

Mongo db is a great nosql database and is appropriate for maximum applications. It handles data in json and is managed through JavaScript.

Html5, css3 and JavaScript run the show at client side. Use angular.js for binding data and functionalities to your UI.

I highly recommend MEAN stack which requires you to learn just JavaScript.

Node.js and ASP.NET are entirely different technologies based on different philosophies even if both of them are related to web development.

Node.js is a Javascript runtime that executes on the back end, while ASP.NET is a web development framework based on the MVC pattern. So, you may ask, what’s the actual difference between them?

The main difference is that Node.js by itself allows you to create a web server; however, you may need frameworks such as Express and libraries like Mongoose or Passport in order to develop a web application (handling routes, displaying views, connecting to a database, handling authentication/authorization, etc.).

ASP . net handles all of this for you. It offers routing through controllers, database connections, displaying views, working with models, decoupled classes (IoC/Dependency Injection), and a built-in Unit Testing system. The problem with ASP.NET is that it may feel overwhelming for a beginner, while the whole javascript-based node.js is great for learning web fundamentals.

Why is ASP.NET overwhelming at first glance? Because a developer must already have a solid knowledge of C# (a strongly typed language that features Interfaces, Generics and Lambda Expressions), Sql Server/Relational Databases, Entity Framework, HTML Helpers (or Tags), CSS and Javascript.

On the other hand, since Node.js belongs to a universe where Javascript is king, your skills with this programming language permeate through the entire development workflow.

Based on my experience as a developer, ASP.NET is used by many large corporations worldwide, while startups and middle sized companies prefer the Node.js ecosystem since its great for a fast approach to prototyping a Minimum Viable Product.

Is ASP MVC the go-to framework for web development in 2017?

ASP MVC is a go-to framework. It is certainly not the go-to framework.

This is 2017. The ecosystem is more fragmented than ever. If you want to develop in C# or VB, then use ASP MVC. It is really a worth while thing to stack on top of ASP.NET.

If however you are wanting the best answer for your solution, you need more digging. Depending on what you are making, other answers may be better for you:

• Relatively small application with 1–2 dozen model classes and little to no business logic? Ruby on Rails or Django for Python
• Lots of difference between what is shown and what is stored in the database, but little business logic? Probably NodeJS
• Gargantuan project with a lot of objects and a separated view system? Spring Boot for Java
• Large Line of Business Application with lots of views? Spring Boot for Java or ASP MVC

I’m relatively opinionated about the right tool for the job, and I’m relatively opinionated about what the right tool is for each of those jobs. If you don’t agree, that’s fine. There are also a lot of other tools that I haven’t had time to evaluate that are likely varying degrees of quality mixed into this list.

In the end there are hundreds of options, just pick one.

There isn't enough to go on here...

It's similar to asking what's the advantage of a pickup truck to a van and not specifying the circumstance.

Both will get you where you want to go, but the advantage of one over the other is dependant on what you want to accomplish…

Assuming all things being equal Microsoft frameworks tend to be best for all Microsoft solutions. They don't always play nice with other open standards. Integration can be a bit tricky. It can get costly with licensing. Development time can be quick. Vendor support is available for a price.

Java web development requires more knowledge and skill regarding underlying technology and protocols. There are frameworks and libraries available to ease this. The cost can be much lower, even free. Development time can be longer, but IDEs and frameworks also exist to ease this. There is no vendor for support.

These are generalities. Not considered are connectivity, database, development team, infrastructure, availability, transaction time, politics, SDLC, criticallity, autonomy and any other of a myriad factors that define a web based application.

There are a number of problems that I think hurt ASP.NET's ability to compete with more recent frameworks built on dynamic languages like Ruby and Python.

1. ASP.NET WebForms lacks a good library of dynamic helpers that help you quickly generate the right markup for your pages. Many of the legacy ASP.NET controls produce very poor, outdated markup that often requires heavy amounts of customization with CSS or writing of your own custom web controls.
2. ASP.NET MVC is better positioned to allow for dynamic helpers, but the existing library of them is still very small compared to the ones built into Ruby on Rails. This may not be the case in another year or two.
3. ASP.NET's WebForms view engine was more verbose than something like HAML with Ruby on Rails. As the new MVC3 Razor View Engine becomes more widely adopted, this will also become less of an issue.
4. When doing daily development, the compile, run, test cycle is far slower than using the REPL method that Michael Brunton-Spall mentioned above.
5. Deployment is slower due to the necessity of compiling and moving large binary files around. While this can be negligible when finely tuned, in many corporate environments where .NET is used heavily, it can be a tedious, manual process for developers.

Till the early years in 2000s, Tomcat used to be a web server and Websphere was an enterprise application server.

Meaning only jsp, servlet based web applications were supported by Tomcat. It was very easy to install and free to use. It was suitable for any type of web application.

Websphere as an application server that could deoploy both servlet, jsp applications and ejb applications. Websphere was a highly powerful product and was suitable for large enterprise class products. The license was costly. Of course it provided a lot of more features. It also needed little more resources and expertise to install and manage Websphere.

Later Sun Microsystem changed the J2EE specifications. The web and business components become very light. The EJB 3x applications could be deployed on Tomcat also.

In that way now Tomcat could also support enterprise applications though still many premium features lacked in comparison to Websphere. But I always liked tomcat, as it could be installed and managed pretty easily. It is a FOSS and is also well documented. As it is free, it is pretty open for any customisation.

Websphere on the other hand is part of a suite of IBM products. It works very well, very well documented and provides a lot of features. But you must be ready to pay well and upgrade yourself to use it.

It depends on the preference of the developer and the development ecosystem he/she belongs to.

Like I am from Microsoft technologies background I prefer ASP NET MVC.

With the advancement in ASP NET Core and support of new Templates in Visual Studio 2017 it has became more easy to develop modern web apps with all latest and greatest client side framework like Angular, React.js etc with support of Client side package management such as NPM and Bower

The J2EE Specification describes four types of components that can be created by a developer. It interacts with its host environment and other components through the J2EE APIs that are available to it.

The application components are:

1. Applet component

Applet Components are client-side GUI components that are hosted by an applet container, which is typically a web browser.

2. Application client component

These are Java-based programs that can execute within a supported JVM.

3. Web component

They have the ability to respond to HTTP requests. They comprise JSP pages, filters, servlets and web event listeners:

4. Servlets

Servlets can be used in any request/response programming models but are most often used with HTTP.

5. JavaServer Pages

JSP pages provide dynamic web application capability to the J2EE Platform. A JSP page begins with HTML elements that remain static throughout the lifetime of the page. Dynamic elements are then added through the embedding of Java code and/or special tags within the page.

6. Filters

Filter components are provide the ability to intercept requests by clients for resources on a server and also responses provided to these requests by the web container with the goal of transforming the content of either the request or response communication.

7. Web event listeners

Web event components provide developers with the flexibility to respond in a certain way when different types of web application–related events such as the creation or invalidation of a session occurs.

8. Enterprise JavaBeans components

Server-side components that singularly or collectively encapsulate the application logic of an enterprise application. EJB enables rapid and simplified development of transactional, distributed, secure, and portable applications based on Java technology. Three types of EJBs are,

9. Session beans

A session bean is a server-side extension of a client that exists to service requests made by the client. They perform transient services for their clients, fulfilling whatever request is made of them and returning to their original initialized states.

10. Entity beans

These are an encapsulated representation of business objects made available with a persistence mechanism.

11. Message-driven beans

This component allows the Enterprise Java Beans container to provide support for asynchronous message processing.

These above listed are the part of J2EE.

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That is not a perfect conclusion to the .net vs. Java comparisons because both are the use of understanding the actual business requirements of the company. The following Java VS .net comparisons can help the business make a better choice.

Java:

• You require an enterprise-grade application
• Inquiring portability & platform independence
• Your application attracts high user sizes
• Factors provide play a major role in the performance of Java as like – LINQ is not available in the Java platform.

.Net:

• Develop web services easy to use
• High-security application
• Feature prepared and intuitive application with a rich GUI package
• .Net provides factors play a major role in the performance of LINQ enable a user to write doubts directly instead of using stored procedures.

Both .net and Java are superior languages. It depends on the developer’s skills, the requirement of client requests and infrastructure, whether Java and.net is to be used. Ultimately, the overall operational efficiency of your business depends require matter.

Being a part of .NET technology, ASP.NET is used for developing powerful apps and creating dynamic HTML pages.

1) Security first!

Today security issue plays an important role, as more data and personal info becomes a subject to fraud. With built-in Windows authentication and per application configuration, a program becomes more secure. The ASP.NET program tracks illegal activities or memory leaks and immediately deals with them.

2) Continuous monitoring

ASP.NET provides an extensive managing of your application performance, as well as bugs prevention due to constant and comprehensive monitoring. It never stops and keeps on monitoring apps, pages, and components as they are running to detect mistakes or suspicious activity.

3) Less time for coding

When just implementing the framework, you have to spend less time coding. That is especially relevant for large web applications. Moreover, in ASP.NET applications the code is translated into object code which is then executed. This process is known as the compilation process. Though it still takes some time to compile, it happens only once. After the process is completed, the code is executed very quickly.

4) Ease of deployment

Not only time but deployment, in general, is simplified with ASP.NET. However, while mainly large applications owners are focused on time-saving technologies, the ease of deployment becomes the Golden Prize for startupers. You don’t need to register all the components, as the configuration has already been installed in the system.

5) Language and database independence

With ASP.NET the problem of sticking to a certain language will never occur, as the framework is language independent. It means you can decide on your own what language you’d like to use. The same principle is applied to databases. Choosing the right database is a serious step in developing a web app. ASP.NET supports all popular databases, including MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Maria DB, CouchDB, and etc. Almost all of them are free and open source.

6) Rich toolbox

Visual Studio is a code editor for developing modern web apps. It supports various programming languages including .NET. This tool provides developers with numerous features, such as which is used to develop provides its users with automatic deployment, WYSIWYG editing, drag-and-drop server controls, and etc.

7) Manageability

The hierarchical configuration system provides perfect manageability. All the configuration elements are stored in XML-based text files. It significantly simplifies the new settings appliance, as you don’t need to restart the server, deploy settings separately, or replace running compiled code.

In short, ASP.NET is a framework that helps you build a successful web application of any size, with any features you need and at an affordable price.

Anything truly complex will need you to use a framework, or you will end up creating your own. Frameworks bring down the development time and costs(if they’re not Magento 2 or some other marvels of overengineering). They will also enforce some best practices and get compatibility issues out of your way.

The need is there only because the initial/original design is putrid. The Web is a modern version of Dante’s Inferno. It may however have more than 9 bolgias.

That aside, you want frameworks to be fairly weildy, as you may need to adapt them to your needs and that would be very hard to do indeed when said framework has several millions of lines of code. Also, you want the community to be fairly vibrant as they are big and need to be maintained by other people, otherwise they’ll soon become completely unprofitable if they’ve been created by several people, but you have to maintain them by yourself. You want the technologies they are based on to be supported and you want the frameworks to prove nimble. The last thing you want is a framework that ends up only supporting an old version of PHP, that the PHP core team have dropped support for. In general you want to choose the suplest framework that will get most of the tedious stuff out of your way in your future projects and can be trusted to be maintained. Choose a very bulky/complex one and development costs will keep increasing down the road to the point where most of your clients will no longer be able to afford it and you will have specialised on something that began as mainstream, but has become niche.

Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE)

The Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) is a collection of Java APIs owned by Oracle that software developers can use to write server-side applications. It was formerly known as Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition, or J2EE.

Sun Microsystems (together with industry partners such as IBM) originally designed Java EE to simplify application development in a thin-client-tiered environment. Java EE simplifies app development and decreases the need for programming by creating standardized, reusable modular components and by enabling the tier to handle many aspects of programming automatically.

Java EE applications are hosted on application servers, such as IBM's WebSphere, Oracle's GlassFish or Red Hat's WildFly server, all of which run either in the cloud or within a corporate data center. While Java EE apps are hosted on the server side, examples of Java EE clients include an internet of things (IoT) device, smartphone, RESTful web service, standard web-based application, WebSocket or even microservices running in a Docker container.

Java EE core technologies

Along with the four aforementioned APIs, there are more than 30 Java APIs included as Java EE core technologies, with that number to approach 50 with the eventual release of Java EE 8. These Java EE core technologies broadly fall into the following file categories:

• HTTP client technologies: For dealing with HTTP-based clients, Java EE includes the Java API for WebSocket programming, an API for JSON Processing, the JSF and Servlet APIs and the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL).
• Database and resource access technologies: For interacting with external and back-end systems, Java EE includes JavaMail, a standard connector architecture, a Java Message Service (JMS) API and a Java Transaction API (JTA) for enforcing two-phase commits.
• REST and web service technologies: To help with the development and deployment of REST-, SOAP-, XML- and JSON-based web services, the Java APIs for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS) and XML-based web services (JAX-WS) are included, along with APIs for XML messaging and XML registries (JAXR).
• Java EE security and container management: For implementing custom Java EE security and managing Java EE containers, software developers have access to the Java Authorization Contract for Containers and the Java Authentication Service Provider Interface for Containers.

You should know that the latest versions of the two Frameworks are more alike than you think in a way that choosing the one over the other is just the matter of selecting the one that fits your use case.

Therefore your selection should be the matters of choosing between the two depending on the team experience even though shifting to another won’t vibe much of the problem as the concepts between the two is now very similar ,EJB in JEE7 has evolved to be more like Spring Beans and also dependency injection exists in both framework such that Spring calls it IOC (Inversion Of Control ) and JEE calls it CDI(Context Dependency Injection) .

Also the rest of the application archicture decisions remain the same such as DAOs,Services,DTOs and the like ,you can agree the design patterns for Spring and JEE 7 is more similar than you think even on the dependency injection they are more alike now such that in JEE7 dependency injection is done by @Inject while in spring 4 dependency injection is done by @Autowire .

Therefore choosing between the two is just the matter of your use case as both are mature frameworks that takes a similar approach to crafting your softwares and in fact you can switch between the two and abandon the other and still things would be done ,that’s can how similar they are right now as JEE latest EJB implementation work more like the spring Beans.

Choose one that suits you and proceed .

I think it depends on the layer we are talking about. Web development involves a server, a database, one (or more) back-end languages, and front-end languages.

You definitely do not want a framework to work in your server. About as close as we have to that is AWS and its alternatives.

I personally believe that a database should not be built via a framework. I know attitudes used to be different here, but I think the trend has moved away from letting the ORM build out the database. This then extends to how much an ORM should be writing SQL queries.

In theory, ORMs are great, but in practice, they don’t really write optimal queries, so you end up with raw-sql everywhere, which defeats the purpose. ORMs have been controversial for a long time. I’ll let you do the research on why. If you can’t tell, I think ORMs are a horrible.

Going up the build a little bit to the code layer, it’s generally more raw code with various libraries for security, allowing API endpoints, and various other functions. This is important to get right because, well, having an insecure endpoint isn’t a good thing. This is where I think frameworks did shine, but I’ve seem more and more websites move over to using libraries.

From what I’ve seen, the general trend is to move away from frameworks in the back-end. Sites I’ve been working on have used a lightweight framework like Express (NodeJS), Flask (Python), Compojure (Clojure), etc, then adding components as needed. There are many strong arguments for doing this style of web development.

The front-end is a totally different story. The front-end is dominated by React, Angular, VueJs, and other frameworks for JavaScript, then Bootstrap and Foundation for CSS (with SASS). I think these frameworks are definitely needed into modern web development. Cross-browser compatibility issues aside, these frameworks give a lot of tools to the developer.

Hi,
I am an experienced java developer who is an expert in php as well.
if your customer is a small business then use php/mysql. If an big enterprise its more likely that they will use java if they use opensource. These are just business perspective. from technical front if you want to code and deploy small.medium sized projects by yourself then use php. java is objected oriented in nature. it will take significant amount of time to master these concepts and use effectively. though php has object orientated concepts ,for small projects you can circumvent and code without using oops concepts. its not to say that java is best.
regards
vinodhsen

The two are not the same. Java is like an application that can be served up using .NET. Now, JavaScript is something that is also used in .NET but Java and JavaScript are at least similar.

If you want to learn Web Development Then learn .NET or, better, learn HTML 5 and CSS. Again, .Net is the Framework that they are using to support the internet. HTML is the code you use to create web pages. CSS is used to enhance that code to look good to your users. JavaScript is used, on the client side, to make things on your page do things but most of the things on the page are/can be done by the “Code behind”. There are two possibilities for the code behind: VB and C#. My advice, learn C#. Not that there’s anything wrong with VB, it’s a good second language.

I personally am starting to feel that .NET MVC is a bit heavy.

I think that Javascript frameworks will take on more responsibility and simplify things further. An example would be Angular.js. It handles routing, dependency injection, data binding, templates (masterpages). It pretty much does everything.

All it needs is a backend to tie to. RESTful webservice works wonderfully with it, or Node.js, etc. While creating a site with it I came to the realization that I didn't need Server-side MVC for anything really.

It's a liberating feeling in a way because then you realize that all you need is Notepad++ or Sublime to create everything. Use the web browser to debug and your entire IDE solution is free!

To me that felt sort of where I'd like things to progress. The only issue I have is that all of your code is accessible in those type of pure javascript environments. That would definitely need to be addressed somehow before I would just go notepad all the way.

So my setup of choice is Angular in a MVC4 SPA so I can keep my important logic on the server-side.

-Jonesy

Hey there!

So why use this Microsoft “child” for web developing? Interesting question! Well, I am going to be candid with you and reveal best reasons for this.

I believe that the fame that ASP .Net has gained in such a short time period is well deserved as it offers a vast numbers of features that even big tech giants like Microsoft, MSN, Diply, and W3Schools couldn't resist!

ASP .Net is an open source, server side web application framework which runs on Windows. It allows a developer to choose many different working environments.

The shiniest feature of ASP .Net is the Uptime it offers. It offers 99.9% of Uptime which makes it super reliable.

ASP .Net requires less coding for Application Development which reduces complexity issue.

It supports common language run-time i.e. it supports many languages like VB, C#,etc. which makes it an appealing option.

Its features like windows authentication and form authentication are built in that makes it secure for use along with early caching services which are its just in time compilation.

The separation of presentation and programming language is top notch code behind class system.

Hence I think ASP. Net is an apt choice for web development. Hope this provided you food for your thought.

Thank you for the A2A.

I have used only a few IDEs as of today, so I may not be an expert at suggesting if ASP.Net is the best Application framework. However, I have used ASP.Net and I can safely say that it is very helpful for new users and developers who are still learning to develop applications.

At the same time, ASP.Net Framework provides hundreds of languages which you can use to develop applications, with C# in the Highlight.

Microsoft has also has provided a beautiful drag and drop interface which reduces the coding efforts. Also, it is backed with the Libraries which is developed by Microsoft over so many years.

Recently, new advanced features in Visual Studio have been launched which includes Silverlight. Designing Web Applications has become a complete new experience. Even games can be developed using these features.

Also, You might like to check out this link for more features:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/4w3ex9c2(v=vs.140).aspx

I would say that .Net is an all in one development package which you can use. However, that does not mean that other frameworks available are not good. They all have their own advantages and disadvantages depending on the purpose for which you want to use it. Some might give you more features and some might give you less features. Some might give you ability to develop faster optimized applications while some might not be so good at it. .Net tries to balance these features and functionality into one framework.

ASP.NET is an open-source, server-side web application framework created by Microsoft that runs on Windows and was started in the early 2000s. ASP.NET allows developers to create web applications, web services, and dynamic content-driven websites.

Web frameworks:

• ASP.NET
• ASP.NET Core
• Blazor

Numerical libraries:

• AForge.NET
• ALGLIB
• Math.NET Numerics
• Meta.Numerics

Best Front-End Frameworks:

• Sass
• Bower
• Jasmine
• Karma
• Bootstrap
• AngularJS
• Grunt
• Yeoman

Best Back-End Frameworks:

• ASP.NET WEBAPI
• ASP.NET MVC
• Sharp Tests Ex
• Servicestack
• Autofixture
• CacheCow
• Redis
• Quatrz.NET
• Windsor Container
• Automapper
• Common Logging
• XUnit
• Nancyfx
• Signalr

As a whole, ASP.NET is a great framework to use when developing web sites and web applications. It is reliable, fast, easy to use, free and widely known. ASP.NET gives you full control of your development and can be used on any project, big or small.

It hasn't. What it did do was lock in vendors and customers in proprietary, closed systems owned by Microsoft. If you already had purchased Microsoft Windows Servers that ran Microsoft's own, proprietary web server instead of one of the many free, open-source systems, and your programmers already spoke Microsoft VB or C# instead of one of the many ubiquitous, free, and open-source programming languages, it was easy for Microsoft marketing and sales to push you into having those employees build web applications using Mircosoft's tooling and technologies.

Additionally, Microsoft's web server suffered a very poor design that not only was difficult to configure, but also didn't used to scale well at all, necessitating the purchase of even more expensive hardware and software licenses, including load balancers and caching proxies.

The only parties who benefited from ASP dot Net were Microsoft, hardware manufacturers, and vendors.