is Microsoft’s platform for developing web applications. Using , you can create e-commerce shops, data-driven portal sites, and just about anything else you can find on the Internet. Best of all, you don’t need to paste together a jumble of HTML and script code in order to program the Web. Instead, you can create full-scale web applications using nothing but code and a design tool such as Visual Studio. The cost of all this innovation is the learning curve. To master , you need to learn how to use an advanced design tool (Visual Studio), a toolkit of objects (the .NET Framework), and an.