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As you can see, the ASP.NET technology is a large subject and is the sole topic of numerous books. It’s an extremely powerful feature of Mono and can lead to feature-rich, thin-client applications that are relatively simple to develop but do not suffer from the client-side requirement of typical fat-client applications such as those based on Windows Forms. The chapter provided an overview of ASP.NET concepts and why features such as Web Services are important when dealing with heterogeneous environments. You looked briefly at the architecture behind the ASP.NET runtime and how it uses JIT compilation and caching to achieve good performance. You then looked at obtaining, installing, and configuring the required components, including using some of the leading Web servers on the market. This allowed you to use a Web server to see a number of ASP.NET’s powerful features in action, including the following:

You now have the foundation necessary to start experimenting and discovering some of the other fantastic features that ASP.NET has to offer.

To conclude this book, I’ve presented some of the more advanced topics found within the .NET Framework and Mono. First, you saw how to assess the performance of your application using both built-in and additional . This followed with a discussion on how to address performance, assuming that you have first diagnosed the problem(s) using profiling. I then introduced the topic of reflection, showing how you can obtain introspective information on your assemblies and classes at runtime using the reflection application programming interface. You also looked at increasing your application’s response time yet further by tapping into the power of multithreaded applications, allowing (what often appears to be) simultaneous processing of code. Finally, I provided some tips on how to work toward the utopia of true interoperability between your applications running on different operating systems.