What is ASP.NET?

At a high level, ASP.NET is a collection of .NET classes that collaborate to process an HTTP request and generate an HTTP response

–Some classes are loaded from system assemblies

–Some classes are loaded from GAC assemblies

–Some classes are loaded from local assemblies

–To work with ASP.NET, you must build your own classes that integrate into its existing class structure

–Some of your classes will be in pre-built assemblies

–Some of your classes will be in assemblies generated implicitly from ASP.NET files (aspx, ashx, asmx,....)

High-level view of ASP.NET

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