Getting Started with ASP.NET Classes

Getting Started with ASP.NET Classes

The class is an object-oriented programming term to refer to a data structure that describes an object or a data member. The .Net Framework has an exclusive set of class libraries such as data access, XML support, directory services, regular expression, and queuing support.

The data access class library provides data access ASP.NET Classes to connect to SQL Server or any OLEDB provider. The XML support class library has XML Classes the go beyond the capability of MSXML. The directory services library is used to access Active Directory/LDAP using ADSI. The regular expression library supports all the above mentions ASP.NET Classes any more than that it also supports Perl 5.

All the above mentioned class libraries use the CLR base class libraries for common functionality. These base class libraries can be divided into six categories: