Re: FN-FORUM: ASP / ASP.net

date posted 24th January 2004 13:12

Dan Cook wrote:

> I apologise in advance for asking what, to many, will seem like a stupid
> question. However, I am interested to know what the difference is between
> ASP and ASP.net and what the advantages / disadvantages of using them are.

Chalk and cheese :)

In very brief, ASP is just old-style scripting, fairly limited and
IMHO pretty horrid compared to e.g. PHP. Runs on any old IIS server.

ASP.NET is a /completely/ different beast, vastly richer and hugely
more sophisticated and requires the .Net framework to be installed.

I suspect MS have some suitable documents on their site about the
differences that go into considerably more detail.

Cheers,

Pete
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Peter Croft
PC Associates