One of the major causes of programmers’ headache is the unpredictability of the conditions in which the written applications will run. Different hardware configuration, different versions of operating systems, different sets of libraries, different devices, different drivers, and so on.

A powerful and rather successful attempt to unify the software environment in the Windows operating system is the .NET platform developed by Microsoft in the early 2000s.

The .NET Framework was Microsoft's answer to the Java platform, which had become increasingly popular at that time. ASP.NET builds on the Common Language Runtime: developers can write code for ASP.NET using any programming language.

Some ASP.NET peculiarities:

• Compiled code is faster, and most errors are caught at the development stage.
• An extensible set of controls and class libraries to speed development.
• The ability to cache the entire page, parts of it, or data used on the page.
• Extensible event models, request handling, and server controls.
• Support for CRUD operations when working with tables via GridView.
• It is possible to create web applications that implement the Model-View-Controller (ASP.NET MVC Framework) pattern.

.NET is quite widespread in the development of internal corporate software products, this technology lets to develop stable and fast solutions, which can be run by thousands of users simultaneously. And here we can continue to list numerous advantages of .NET development for a very long time.