Perhaps you can compare it to Servlets?

>Hi Fred,
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>You can't compare Java Applets and ASP.NET apps. Java Applets are client-side applications and ASP.NET is supposed to run at server-side. ASP.NET generates the resulting HTML and sends it to the browser, so what you have at the client-site is HTML/CSS/Javascript; no executable code at all.
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>Java applets generate .class files which need to be downloaded to the client and are executed by a plug-in. ASP.NET is 100% server-side.
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>It would be more fair if you compare ASP.NET with another server-side technology, such as JSP.
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>Regards,