Instances in asp.net

eaglerk05 · July 8th, 2011, 12:28 PM

Hi Everyone,

I request anyone to please help me out here.

Till date i have never came across concept called as "INSTANCE in ASP.NET";

Please let me know about the "instance in ASP.NET".

What are the instance in ASP.NET..? how many instances are there in

ASP.NET..?

i have been dying to know about these. Please help me out.

THANKS IN ADVANCE....

Imar · July 9th, 2011, 05:29 AM

I guess it depends on the context, as Instance is quite a generic term. It could refer to the name of a SQL Server instance (e.g. in the string .\SqlExpress, SqlExpress is the instance name).

It could also refer to programming where you create an instance of an object. E.g. in this code:

Code:

 
public class Person
{
  public string FirstName { get; set; }
}
....
 
Person somebody = new Person() { FirstName = "John" };

the somebody variable refers to an instance of the class Person.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_(computer_science)

Since you create as many objects / instances as you need, you can't really say how many instances there are in ASP.NET.

Hope this helps,

Imar

eaglerk05 · July 11th, 2011, 07:01 AM

Hi imar,

thnx for the explanation you have given on instances of asp.net.

actually I came across this questions in a technical interview that i have been
for and i replied the same thing but the technical interviewer said that's not the correct answer.

hence i want to know

but any way thnx for the explanation.

hope i could return the favor one day.

take care
bye

Imar · July 11th, 2011, 07:46 AM

Quote:

but the technical interviewer said that's not the correct answer.

Then they are asking vague questions. Both my answers are correct but there might be other cases where the word instance is used. So, in this case, the interviewer is probably at fault here by not asking questions that can be answered ;-)

Imar