In 2000, Mark Anders and Scott Guthrie revealed the succesor to Active Server Pages (ASP) at AspConnections. They were considered naming ASP+ but the name was changed to ASP.net. Quickly the name was changed to ASP.net. Unlike ASP which had its roots in VB and COM, this was built with whole new infrastructure called collectively the .net Framework (which they were considering calling COM+ 2.0).
There were only 6 objects in Classic ASP, and ASP.net offered thousands. And 2 procedural languages that ASP offered were replaced by dozens of object oriented languages.