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ASP.NET vs .NET: What are the differences?

ASP.NET: An open source web framework for building modern web apps and services with .NET. .NET is a developer platform made up of tools, programming languages, and libraries for building many different types of applications; .NET: A free, cross-platform, open source developer platform for building many different types of applications. .NET is a general purpose development platform. With .NET, you can use multiple languages, editors, and libraries to build native applications for web, mobile, desktop, gaming, and IoT for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and more.

ASP.NET and .NET can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

.NET is an open source tool with 11.2K GitHub stars and 2.41K GitHub forks. Here's a link to .NET's open source repository on GitHub.

Stack Exchange, Microsoft, and Starbucks are some of the popular companies that use .NET, whereas ASP.NET is used by Performance Assessment Network (PAN), Making Waves, and Jitbit. .NET has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1566 company stacks & 239 developers stacks; compared to ASP.NET, which is listed in 76 company stacks and 76 developer stacks.

Decisions about ASP.NET and .NET
Ing. Alvaro Rodríguez Scelza
Software Systems Engineer at Ripio · | 9 upvotes · 479.8K views

Decided to change all my stack to microsoft technologies for they behave just great together. It is very easy to set up and deploy projects using visual studio and azure. Visual studio is also an amazing IDE, if not the best, when used for C#, it allows you to work in every aspect of your software.

Visual studio templates for ASP.NET MVC are the best I've found compared to django, rails, laravel, and others.

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Christopher Wray
Web Developer at Soltech LLC · | 6 upvotes · 386.1K views

When I started on this project as the sole developer, I was new to web development and I was looking at all of the web frameworks available for the job. I had some experience with Ruby on Rails and I had looked into .net for a bit, but when I found Laravel, it felt like the best framework for me to get the product to market. What made me choose Laravel was the easy to read documentation and active community. Rails had great documentation, but lacked some features built in that I wanted out of the box, while .net had a ton of video documentation tutorials, but nothing as straightforward as Laravels. So far, I am happy with the decision I made, and looking forward to the website release!

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Alexander Krylkov
Sofrware Architect at Air Astana · | 2 upvotes · 211.5K views

Comparing to ASP.NET Core MVC or ASP.NET Core Web API Simplify.Web allows you to easily build your web-site or REST API without any additional/complicated setup, covering cases like localization by default. It's projects structure very lightweight, just a minimum amount of what you need to setup ASP.NET Core request pipeline.

It is build on top of Simplify.DI IOC container abstraction, no dependency on Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection and it's syntax. You can easily switch between DryIoc, SimpleInjector, CastleWindsor etc.

Any internal module of Simplify.Web can be easily replaced on extended by your custom module, covering your custom cases.

For HTML pages generation Simplify.Templates can be used allowing you to use just regular plain HTML without additional setup.

Can be easily integrated with Simplify.WindowsServices converting your web application not just to web-application, but a standalone windows service which can also do some background jobs via Simplify.WindowsServices.

And it is open source, of course :)

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Pros of ASP.NET
Pros of .NET
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    Great mvc
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    Easy to learn
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    C#
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    Tight integration with visual studio
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    Stable code
  • 189
    Great community
  • 182
    Reliable and strongly typed server side language.
  • 140
    Microsoft
  • 119
    Fantastic documentation
  • 89
    Great 3rd party libraries
  • 80
    Speedy
  • 71
    Great azure integration
  • 63
    Great support
  • 34
    Highly productive
  • 34
    C#
  • 34
    Linq
  • 31
    High Performance
  • 28
    Great programming languages (C#, VB)
  • 25
    Open source
  • 19
    Powerful Web application framework (ASP.NET MVC)
  • 16
    Clean markup with razor
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    Fast
  • 15
    Powerful ORM (EntityFramework)
  • 13
    Dependency injection
  • 10
    Constantly improving to keep up with new trends
  • 10
    Visual studio + Resharper = <3
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    High-Performance
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    Security
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    TFS
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    Huge ecosystem and communities
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    Integrated and Reliable
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    Job opportunities
  • 6
    Light-weight
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    Lovely
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    Asynchrony
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    Variations
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    {get; set;}
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    Concurrent
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    Support and SImplicity
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    Default Debuging tools
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    Useful IoC
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    Scaffolding
  • 4
    Entity framework
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    Blazor
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    F♯
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    Nuget package manager

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Cons of ASP.NET
Cons of .NET
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    Entity framework is very slow
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    C#
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    Not highly flexible for advance Developers
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    C#
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    Too expensive to deploy and maintain
  • 8
    Microsoft dependable systems
  • 8
    Microsoft itself
  • 5
    Hard learning curve
  • 3
    Tight integration with visual studio
  • 3
    Not have a full fledged visual studio for linux
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    Microsoft itself 🤡🥲

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What is ASP.NET?

.NET is a developer platform made up of tools, programming languages, and libraries for building many different types of applications.

What is .NET?

.NET is a general purpose development platform. With .NET, you can use multiple languages, editors, and libraries to build native applications for web, mobile, desktop, gaming, and IoT for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and more.

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