A Fast Track Guide to ASP.NET
Microsoft’s .NET technology has attracted a great deal of press since Beta 1 was first released to the world. Since then, mailing lists, newsgroups, and web sites have sprung up containing a mixture of code samples, applications, and articles of various forms. Even if you’re not a programmer using existing ASP technology, it’s a good bet that you’ve at least heard of .NET, even if you aren’t quite sure what it involves. After all, there’s so much information about .NET, that it’s sometimes hard to filter out what you need from what’s available. With new languages, new designers, and new ways of programming, you might wonder exactly what you need to write ASP.NET applications.
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As developers, we are all used to the evolutionary cycle of software product releases, where each new release adds a few features and cures a bunch of bugs. Server-side web technology has followed this pattern, with products such as dbWeb and the IDC rapidly settling into the Active Server Pages we know and love today. ASP 1.0 was released in 1996, and although it has gone through a further two releases, it hasn’t really changed that much - until now. Be prepared to throw away many of those ingrained ASP programming habits, as you’ve an interesting ride ahead.
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How is ASP.NET Different from ASP?
This question can be answered in one word - very. ASP.NET is not just a new version, but a whole new idea and way of programming web applications. New features weren’t retrofitted into ASP to give us a new version - ASP.NET has been written from the ground up to provide the best possible application framework. This has meant that, in many areas, compatibility with ASP has been broken, but in the long term this is a good thing. It means that ASP.NET provides a much stronger platform for developing applications, and gives many more benefits.
If you’re worried about the compatibility issue, then remember we mentioned earlier that ASP.NET runs alongside ASP. Even though there are many differences between the two, installing ASP.NET won’t break existing applications. That’s because your existing ASP pages are still processed by the same mechanism as before, and the new framework processes ASP.NET pages. This is achieved by ASP.NET pages having a new file extension (.aspx), meaning they are not processed in the same way as ASP pages.
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