Microsoft recommends developing ASP.NET web applications in an isolated development environment. For more information on the various kinds of development environments, read the chapter ASP.NET Web Application Development Models from the article Team Development with Visual Studio .NET .

ASP.NET has introduced its five updated versions with new added features in each version.

• It was first commenced to web world with version 1.0 in 2002 with Visual Studio .NET,
• In 2003 version 1.1 with Windows Server 2003 and Visual Studio .NET 2003,
• In 2005 version 2.0 with Visual Studio 2005, Visual Web Developer Express and SQL Server 2005,
• In 2007 version 3.5 released with Windows Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008,
• In 2008 version 3.5 service pack released with Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1

ASP.NET allows developers for web application development to use fully featured languages like VB.NET and C# (C-Sharp). Feature of “web services” is unique by ASP.NET, class library, XML support and complete compatibility with other programming languages.

This article recently which I thought was pretty cool. It describes how to build and use an ASP.NET Server Control that makes Google Map integration easy within ASP.NET applications: