Asp.net is an open source server-side Web application framework designed for Web development to produce dynamic Web pages, web sites, apps and services with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. You can also create Web APIs, mobile sites, use real-time technologies like Web Sockets and more!
Web Sites
ASP.NET is great for building standards-based websites with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. ASP.NET supports three approaches for making web sites. ASP.NET Web Forms uses controls and an event-model for component-based development. ASP.NET MVC values separation of concerns and enables easier test-driven development. ASP.NET Web Pages prefers a single page model that mixes code and HTML markup. You can mix and match these techniques within one application depending on your needs - it's all One ASP.NET.
APIs
ASP.NET includes ASP.NET Web API for creating rich REST-ful Web Services that return JSON, XML, or any kind of content the web supports! ASP.NET Web APIs can provide data services to mobile apps like Windows Phones, iPhones, Android and more. ASP.NET Web APIs can be used in any ASP.NET Web Application, including ASP.NET MVC, Web Forms, or Web Pages – it's all One ASP.NET.
Real-time
ASP.NET SignalR is a new library for ASP.NET developers makes real-time bi-directional communication between client and server a reality. ASP.NET SignalR enables new standards like Web Sockets while gracefully falling back to support older browsers. ASP.NET SignalR can support JavaScript clients, as well as clients on Android, iPhone, and all C# clients like Windows Phone and Windows 8.
Mobile
ASP.NET can also power mobile applications with responsive design frameworks like Twitter Bootstrap included out of the box with VS2013. You can use any CSS framework or open grid system you prefer, or perhaps select a powerful mobile system like jQuery Mobile or Sencha and great mobile applications with PhoneGap. The choice is yours, it's all possible with ASP.NET.
Comments and Reviews
Foo Basic, easy alternative to ASP.NET VWD Web IDE
Foo Basic is an extremely powerful, yet easy-to-learn, ASP.NET web application and smart phone app creator programming language. Allows anyone to create commercial level dynamic data-driven cross-browser websites and phone apps for IPhone, Android, and WindowsPhone.
Best of all you can create an entire website or phone app using one single easy-to-learn Visual Basic like coding syntax. No more need to know or be an expert in multiple web languages (no need to learn or use Javascript, Java, ASP.NET, CSS, HMTL etc). Foo Basic automatically detect and generates any required CSS, ASP.NET code, and .NET assemblies for your project. Coding entire websites and phone apps with one single coding language eliminates a lot of the complexities of coding with multiple web technologies, which in turn reduces development time, and allows you to get your ideas to market faster than your competitors.
This makes Foo Basic a lot easier to learn and use than the more complicated Microsoft ASP.NET programming language. With the click of one button, Foo Basic's free built-in powerful compiler/converter/obfuscator automatically obfuscates, converts, and compiles your Foo Basic project in to a ready to upload (to your shared or private web or cloud server) ASP.NET application. Foo Basic allows you to focus on your project requirements, not technology.