Relation between .NET and ASP.NET?

Hi,

I was checking to know what is the .NET framework exactly. I understand that ASP.NET is just built over the .NET and that it uses all the web-technologies-services of .NET. So to do this I believe that they must use the same underlying Class Library as of the .NET to build ASP.NET technology. And also for us as users to develop ASP.NET applications we need to use this classes.

But the figure in the site

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/defaul...

shows that these 2 technologies are independent of each other (.NET and ASP.NET).

Can you please explain.

Thanks,

Kranthi.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/defaul...

http://www.asp.net/Default.aspx?tabindex...

http://www.microsoft.com/net/basics.mspx

Relation between .NET and ASP.NET?internet explorer

ASP.NET has: 1) a subset of the .NET Class Library that's specific and almost only applyable to it and 2) a special means of code execution, involving being host by IIS, managing a couple of cacheing facilities, session state and other things that pertain to executing Web applications.

The .NET Framework is the conjunction of a public language common specification (CLS), an open binary intermediate language specification (MSIL), and a very complete runtime (the CLR plus its class library). It helps building many kinds of software (Console applications, Windows applications, reusable components, COM+ hosted components and Web applications).