[RESOLVED] ASP Advice

[Joseph Witchard]

To any ASP programmers out there, what would you recommend to someone who's still very much in the learning stages of web development, and the most advanced areas of web development they've gotten their hands dirty in are PHP and MySQL? I have absolutely no use for ASP, but all areas of web development interest me, so I would like to have a little knowledge of it. However, learning ASP would be limited, because my webhost doesn't support the language. I've skimmed over ASP source code, and it looks a little bit like Visual Basic (which I have studied a little bit).

Thanks!

[Terrorke]

I good start can be made in the following sites.
This is the very basic of the language, but will give you a good start :
www.w3schools.com
www.devguru.com

But there are many good sites out there

[nbcrockett]

From my understanding you can also use javascript in ASP pages, but I think the bulk of the developers use vb script. At least that's what most people posting to this site use. Here's another useful site that has some great examples for getting started.

http://www.asp101.com/

[Joseph Witchard]

Wouldn't it make more sense to use JavaScript? VBScript only works in IE, doesn't it?

[Terrorke]

No vbscript works just fine in for example Firefox.
That doesn't make any difference.

But most developers use vbscript when programming in ASP

[nbcrockett]

vbscript only works in IE on the client side, but since ASP is server side it works fine. I don't know about FireFox supporting vbscript client side, but I haven't used vbscript on the client side since FireFox 1.

[Joseph Witchard]

I'm pretty sure it doesn't work on the client side in Firefox. There's a site I visit every so often that uses VBScript, and when I visit it, I see VBScript code on the page (kind of like seeing HTML code output on the page if you make a syntax error). However, whenever I visit said site in Internet Explorer, the code is nowhere to be found on the page.

[Kuriyama]

Do not learn vbscript, it's a dying language. Learn .NET

[Joseph Witchard]

What's the difference?

[Kuriyama]

- vbscript is mostly used by system administrators for various tasks using cscript.

- vbscript is a scripting language, it's not an object oriented language so it's not quite as powerful/robust.

- vbscript/ASP does not fully support the creation of web services.

- vbscript doesn't really have a nice set of APIs to use.

- vbscript can not support MVC architecture out of the box.

- vbscript does not support binary stream writing to SQL or to the file system.

If you need more reasons google vbscript vs .NET.


.NET uses a CLR so you can use many different languages to develop web applications. VB and C# come to mind. Most companies are moving away from ASP to .NET apps as they just aren't meeting business requirements.

[Joseph Witchard]

Thanks everyone:)