Since, then ASP has been superseded by ASP.NET, another product by Microsoft.ĪSP is mainly used to create and run dynamic, interactive Web server applications. It was meant to be an add-on to Internet Information Services (IIS). ASP was originally released as part of the Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack.
It was Microsoft's first server-side script engine for dynamically generated web pages. It is a server-side scripting environment that is developed and released by Microsoft. It is commonly known as Classic ASP or ASP Classic. It has been around for a long time and is commonly used in webpage design.ĪSP stands for Active Server Pages. It is a well known mark up language used to develop web pages. HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. It was designed for Web development to produce dynamic Web pages.
ASPX stands for Active Server Pages Extended.
ASP.NET is a server-side Web application framework. Key difference: ASP stands for Active Server Pages.
