I want to know the difference between managed application & web based application. I am developing smart device application in .NET. Can we differentiate ASP.NET, C#.NET, VB.NET application based on difference between Managed Application & Web based application?
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The two terms are unrelated: managed refers to a garbage collection memory model; web based means an application runs under a server which responds to web requests.
For instance, an ASP.NET web application is both.
Mitch Wheat
2010-01-20 12:01:31
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Managed code, is a type of executable that runs within a virtual machine, rather than as native machine code. A web based application can be either managed or native, so this is a false dichotomy I'm afraid.
yosser
2010-01-20 12:01:44
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These are orthogonal concepts.
Managed refers to applications that run on a virtual machine, like Java and .NET, who manage memory allocation etc. As opposed to unmanaged applications, that run on top of the host OS.
Web based applications refer to 3-tier applications (typically browser-appserver-DB). Contrast them with your typical Winforms applications that entirely runs on the client making requests to a remote DB.
Ariel
2010-01-20 12:02:09