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This whole week I'm in training on ASP.net. The place I work at doesn't use ASP.net, but it's still an interesting web framework and I decided to play around with it. Initial impressions are that Microsoft took Front Page, Visual InterDev, and Visual Studio and threw them together to make Visual Studio.NET. Webpages are now programmed like visual basic applications. Each button/textbox/web control has code behind it (if desired) and each page has an associated visual basic file. Everything is compiled and ground up into the necessary HTML at runtime. While it's obviously designed for mickey mouse programmers, it definately has an advantage in terms of productivity. Unlike the typical front-page bloat, all code is compiled into a DLL for quick access. The actual HTML is still heavy, but the functionality and built-in functions make most of it unnecessary. The downside is the high server traffic to make it all work. I'm planning on making my weblog program with it so I'll update again once I have some real experience using it. Head to www.asp.net and download the web matrix to play around with it yourself.