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title: "What is aspx file?"  
description: "What is aspx file?"  
author: "Nishi Tiwari"  
published: 2020-01-18  
updated: 2020-01-18  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/155701/what-is-aspx-file  
category: "asp.net"  
tags: ["asp.net"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is aspx file?

[Briefly describe](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/22943/briefly-describe-android-application-architecture) me about [aspx file](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/108/is-it-possible-to-see-the-code-that-asp-dot-net-generates-from-an-aspx-file) with suitable example.

## Replies

### Reply by Nishi Tiwari

An aspx [file](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/59/encrypting-and-decrypting-files-using-c-sharp) with the ASPX file extension is an Active Server Page Extended file that is specially designed for **[Microsoft's ASP.NET framework](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/155650/why-to-use-asp-dot-net-mvc)**. They are also known as .NET Web forms. ASPX files are not the same as the Web Handler files ASHX although they look similar.

ASPX files are generated by a web server which contain scripts and source codes that help us to communicate to a browser and tells how a web page should be opened and displayed.

More often than not, we will probably only see the extension .ASPX in a URL or when our web browser accidentally sends us an ASPX file instead of the one we thought we were downloading.

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