Do you know any impressive ASP.NET websites besides Microsoft.com and Asp.net? I have tried googling "Impressive ASP.NET websites" but didn't get any interesting results.
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A:
- StackOverflow.com (and all stack related sites)
- Msnbc.com
- Bing.com
- Codeplex.com
- kbb.com
Tommy
2010-06-23 00:32:59
How would you know if it's developed in ASP.NET if there's no .aspx extension?
Silence of 2012
2010-06-23 00:41:16
@Sahat: The file extension means nothing. You could build a site with PHP that uses `.aspx`, and conversely you can build a site with ASP.NET (like Stack Overflow) that doesn't use `.aspx` at all.
Greg Hewgill
2010-06-23 00:43:31
@Sahat, see [the SO blog](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/aspnet/) for discussion of their use of ASP.NET MVC.
Matthew Flaschen
2010-06-23 00:43:50
@Sahat: you can't, in general. But at least for msnbc.com and bing.com (for example) if you view the source you can see some references to .ashx and .aspx files. Of course, the extensions don't actually mean *for sure* that it's ASP.NET, but it's a fairly safe bet...
Dean Harding
2010-06-23 00:44:50
@Sahat: Usually you can use firebug in FireFox and look at the response headers coming from the website. IIS/.NET usually have a response header something like this Server Microsoft-IIS/7.0, X-AspNet-Version 2.0.50727
Tommy
2010-06-23 00:45:20
Thanks, that really clears it up for me.
Silence of 2012
2010-06-23 00:49:55
I didn't put myspace.com on my list in fear of retribution :) But...in it's hay day - it served a heck of a lot of traffic. Of course, you got an error every third page request...
Tommy
2010-06-23 00:50:03
They used both actually. There is a .NET/ColdFusion plug-in (?) that they used. Essentially, they used CF to output the page but the DAL and BLL were .NET
Tommy
2010-06-23 00:53:48