TO BUILD EFFECTIVE AND ATTRACTIVE database-driven websites, you need two things: a solid and fast framework to run your web pages on and a rich and extensive environment to create and program these web pages. With and Visual Studio 2012 you get both. Together they form the platform to create dynamic and interactive websites. builds on top of its popular predecessors , , and . While maintaining backward compatibility with sites built using these older versions, and Visual Studio 2012 introduce new, exciting features and bring many smaller, but much needed changes to the framework and development tools
