Asp

Asp may refer to:

Places

Asp, part of Densbüren, Aargau, Switzerland

Aspe (Asp in Valencian), Alicante, Spain

Asp Lake, a lake in Minnesota

Animals

Asp (fish) (Aspius aspius)

Asp (reptile), in antiquity, one of several venomous snakes

Cerastes cerastes, a venomous viper found in the Sahara desert

Cerastes vipera, a venomous viper found in the Sahara desert

Egyptian cobra, a venomous snake found in North Africa and parts of the Middle East

Vipera aspis, a venomous viper found in Europe

Megalopyge opercularis, asp caterpillar or tree asp, a caterpillar

Plants

Aspasia (orchid), an orchid genus, abbreviated "Asp."

Science

Asp (rocket), a sounding rocket

Acylation stimulating protein, a cytokine protein from adipose tissue

Aspartic acid, an amino acid, which is abbreviated as "Asp"

Other

ASP, Inc., Armament Systems and Procedures, suppliers of batons and other law enforcement equipment

Asp baton, expandable baton by ASP, also used as a generic term

Asp baton, expandable baton by ASP, also used as a generic term

Aspö

Aspö is a small village on the Aspö Island in Väståboland, Finland. Until 2009 it belonged to the municipality of Korpo. Its Finnish-language name is Haapasaari, although this name is seldom used. The village is known for its white limestone church that has a red brick roof. The current church was built in 1955–1956; however, a church has existed in the place since the Middle Ages. The old church was destroyed in a storm in 1949.

History

The commercially seafaring Vikings landed on Aspö during the Viking period, 800 - 1050 AD. In the 13th century it also served as a harbour for traders. The trade route was laid between Tallinn, Estonia and Denmark. In the beginning of the 20th century only about 30 people lived on Aspö. Now there are only about 10 people.

During World War I until 1917, Aspö served as Russian naval military watchpost. In 1944 it served as the German navy base as the Germans were not allowed to anchor on Åland proper.

In the 1910s the Russians had a patrol station on the island. In the 1940s it was used as a harbour for submarines. On the contrary to the year of 1941, on 1944 the Finns allowed instead of Aland proper, the German navy to use only Aspö and Nötö as the naval base Rotbuche as there was a suspicion of the Tanne West operation which would have led to the German occupation of Aland Islands. The question became actual from 20 June to 27 June, when the president of the republic of Finland, mr. Risto Ryti and the foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop negotiated the terms continuing the war after the German arms export embargo in since April, 1944 due to the negotiations of peace with the Soviet union. A heavy naval detachment was sent via Utö towards Aspö.

ASP.NET

ASP.NET is an open-source server-side web application framework designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. It was developed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic web sites, web applications and web services.

It was first released in January 2002 with version 1.0 of the .NET Framework, and is the successor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) technology. ASP.NET is built on the Common Language Runtime (CLR), allowing programmers to write ASP.NET code using any supported .NET language. The ASP.NET SOAP extension framework allows ASP.NET components to process SOAP messages.

ASP.NET is in the process of being re-implemented as a modern and modular web framework, together with other frameworks like Entity Framework. The new framework will make use of the new open-source .NET Compiler Platform (code-name "Roslyn") and be cross platform. ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, and ASP.NET Web Pages (a platform using only Razor pages) will merge into a unified MVC 6. The project is called ASP.NET vNext.

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