Development tools & Frameworks for ASP.Net

Development tools for ASP.Net Several available software packages exist for developing ASP.NET applications: Microsoft Expression Web, part of the Microsoft Expression Studio application suite. Visual Studio .NET or Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition (for ASP.NET 2.0) ASP.NET Web Matrix (ASP.NET 1.x only, was free, now no longer supported: replaced by the free Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition) Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004, or Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 (doesn't support ASP.NET 2.0 features, and produces very inefficient code for ASP.NET 1.x: also, code generation and ASP.NET features support through version 8.0.1 was little if any changed from version MX: version 8.0.2 does add changes to improve security against SQL injection attacks) Macromedia HomeSite 5.5 (For ASP Tags) Microsoft SharePoint Designer 12 Delphi 2006 MonoDevelop (Free/Open Source) SharpDevelop (Free/Open Source) Frameworks of ASP.Net It is not essential to use the standard webforms development model when developing with ASP.NET. Noteworthy frameworks designed for the platform include: Castle Monorail, an open-source MVC framework with an execution model similar to Ruby on Rails. The framework is commonly used with Castle ActiveRecord, an ORM layer built on NHibernate. Spring.NET, a port of the Spring framework for Java.