Re: FN-FORUM: ASP/ASP.NET 2.0/3.5. Which is best?

date posted 17th April 2008 16:35

>> On Thursday 17 April 2008 17:18:45 Clark wrote:
>>
>> > We had been planning to develop in ASP.NET 2.0/3.5 but recently some (ASP
>> > based) people/companies have tried to convince us that .NET is dead and
>> > buried because it is too complicated to develop in.
>>
>> No, *they* are dead and buried because asp.net is too complicated for *them*
>> to develop in. As Dai has pointed out, .asp support will get phased out.
>>

Having worked with .NET and its competitors for a long time I have to agree that it is "too complicated"; getting large systems to build and all work together is always a painful experience compared to say J2EE. VisualStudio has to be one of the worst IDEs around, I will always remember the many hours I have spent tearing out what little hair I have left trying to make it behave sensibly. It can be used for serious development, it just takes longer.

This however is not the same thing as being dead; with the weight of Microsoft behind it and a vast number of installed systems it will live for a long time yet.

regards
Mike