Server Application Development

Server Application Development

Runtime hosts are used for deploying applications in the managed code world. Unmanaged applications host the CLR. This allows the user mange custom code to control the behavior of the server. This provides the application with all the advantages of the CLR and Class Library and the performance and scalability of the host server.

ASP.NET is a hosting side environment that enables developers use the .NET framework to deploy web based applications, as well as for developing web sites and Internet distributed Web services that use IIS and ASP.NET for publishing the applications.

XML Web services are distributed server side application components that have no UI but have software components designed to be consumed by other applications such as client applications, web based applications etc. In this connection, .NET Framework also provides a collection of classes and tools that aid in the development and consumption of XML Web Services applications.

These applications are built on standards such as SOAP, XML (Extensible Markup language) and WSDL (Web services Description language). These standards promote interoperability with non Microsoft solutions.

In this section we have examined the .NET Framework and the components and the type of application support that has been provided by it to client and Server side applications. In the next section of this tutorial we will briefly examine the changes and improvements that have been made to the .NET Framework 2.0 in the BETA version.