going from asp classic to asp.net help

[rileyh]

Greetings!

I've read a few posts that talk about the fact that an asp.net environment by way of Mono is different from an asp classic environment.

I've done a lot in asp classic, and I'm wondering if there's any way to use some of that code here without having to learn asp.net?

If you just plain can't do it, then I think I'm going to have to start my site from scratch in PHP.

I welcome any advice or comments, thank you =)

Riley

[Twinkie]

Sorry, but not many people here code in either language. Free PHP runs well with free-hosting members. I did a little asp myself before I realized I could only run it on a paid server :S

There might be better places to ask this question.

[misson]

There might be better places to ask this question.

Seconded. An MS-specific forum or newsgroup is the best place for this question, but here's one article to get you started.

Of course, ASP.Net is a vast improvement over ASP, so unless you're talking about legacy code, you should switch to ASP.Net as soon as you can learn it. Being able to use C# instead of VB is (by itself) a big win.

[xav0989]

I used to do some ASP/ASP.net. The first tutorial I read was a ASP classic tutorial. Most of the code worked perfectly. You should try converting you project to ASP.net (VS2005 and VS2008 have an utility for that, somewhere, I think it shows up when you import an asp classic project), then try running it in debug mode. Correct any error that appear, and you should be good to go.

[merrillmck]

I have zero experience with ASP which is why I initially didn't respond.

However, if you choose to learn ASP.NET then should you ever want to learn C# or Visual Basic the transition will be very easy. All three of these are Microsoft specific languages so you'll be tying yourself to Microsoft's Visual Studio. That'll deter some people.

In the end it's your personal preference ... lot of means to the same end.

[khianib]

Greetings!

I've read a few posts that talk about the fact that an asp.net environment by way of Mono is different from an asp classic environment.

I've done a lot in asp classic, and I'm wondering if there's any way to use some of that code here without having to learn asp.net?

If you just plain can't do it, then I think I'm going to have to start my site from scratch in PHP.

I welcome any advice or comments, thank you =)

Riley

hi, i've been developing in asp and asp.net and currently learning php. Moving from asp to asp.net wont be a problem.

For db connectivity classes exist in .net. Its called ADO.net. The best way is to use simple html controls and write serverside code in pageload. read control values from Request.Form and perform operations, in short use asp.net like classic asp. the benefits of moving to asp.net ...? well ado.net is pretty good and theres exception handling too. if u're planing for php, you'll have to learn everything from scratch, session mgt. etc is not as easy in php as in asp and asp.net. plus, php inherently supports mysql connectivity , but if ur backend is other than mysql, it will consume time.

make an informed decision , all the best.
Bharat Khiani
(Web Developer)
India