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

date posted 17th April 2008 16:58



Dai Williams 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.
>>
>
>
> I think you are been spun lines, if anything quite the reverse is true, ASP
> could perhaps be argued to be dead/dying as Microsoft will inevitably
> decrease support for it as they increase support for .NET. Furthermore .NET
> offers a far more credible environment in my view and from what I have seen
> in the view of most "serious" programmers. ASP was a half-baked
> implementation and only got the take-up it did because it was the only
> Microsoft (and originally only Windows) web solution around.
>
> I have no doubt there will be plenty of ASP legacy code for a long time to
> come and no doubt many good programmers/applications/sites using it, but if
> you are starting from ground zero and looking to the future go .NET (or
> PHP), it would be crazy to start fresh in ASP now.
>
What he said. ASP was never that great and there is absolutely no reason
to create a new site using it. A developer who tells you that ASP is a
useful technology is actually telling you that they aren't a terribly
good web developer. If a programming environment like that provided by
ASP.Net, used by thousands of developers the world over, is too
complicated for them then they're presumably going to be absolutely
flummoxed by any but the simplest of requirements. A comment like that
would take someone straight off my list of potential contractors for a
development project.

As for the version of ASP.Net, I don't know how ubiquitous 3.5 is as
yet- version 2 has been around for a while and you should be able to get
that hosted very easily. I'm not sure about the newer version because
I've not really needed to look into it for a while but either should be
fine.

-ben