A Guided Garden Stroll through the .NET Framework Class Library

Namespace: SYSTEM.WEB

● I am the Web Namespace and I am just so extensive, that I can not do myself justice by telling you what I do in the short amount of time that I have.

Like my name implies, I do everything with respect to dealing with web sites. This includes Web Services and Web Hosting without the help from IIS. If your applications need to create and send e-mail, I have a very easy to use SMTP based set of classes in my System.Web.Email namespace. I can even specify the particular SMTP Server, which may be on another machine, to handle the email requests. I can send email on behalf of ASP.NET applications or any other .NET managed application, so don’t let the name Web in my namespace fool you.

A huge new feature in ASP.NET is the ability to cache data and objects between web requests. Use my System.Web.Caching namespace for this.

System.Web.SessionState provides a host of new mechanisms for providing state between web requests including the use of SqlServer or a standalone StateServer machine.

Of course ASP.NET could not be what it is without my System.Web.UI namespace which provides all the controls and forms and much more in your WebForms based Internet applications.