ASP.NET forum, please

[CardboardHammer]

ASP.NET is worlds better than ASP: faster; can separate code from HTML; easier/better error handling; can do more with it "out of the box"; encourages/facilitates better coding; etc. No one should begin a new project of any consequence using ASP for any reasons other than "Management made me do it" or "I can copy over all this code from another elsewhere and with a couple of tweaks, I'll be done".

It deserves it's own forum, in my opinion at least.

[PeOfEo]

I have said this myself too, but we do not have enough asp.net users here so right now you will have to settle for putting asp.net in the title of asp.net posts on the asp forum.

[CardboardHammer]

If you build it they will come, perhaps? I won't be looking for any ASP.NET help, but I'd gladly help others migrate to it from ASP. ASP is legacy and needs to whither away like COBOL...

[PeOfEo]

asp.net is superior, but most asp developers are content with what they have and do not neccisarily want to move, or their company does not want to move. Changing a whole site from asp classic to .net is not easy, I mean asp classic uses vbscript or java script and asp.net generally uses vb or c#. Though those might have syntax similarities they are still very different and it would mean reocoding the whole darned thing which could take some time.

[CardboardHammer]

You don't have to recode. You can mix the two together within the same web without a problem. I'd agree that if one had to recode everything it'd be infeasible, but recoding is optional and can be done at one's own discretion.

[PeOfEo]

Originally posted by CardboardHammer
You don't have to recode. You can mix the two together within the same web without a problem. I'd agree that if one had to recode everything it'd be infeasible, but recoding is optional and can be done at one's own discretion. ASP developers are reluctant to learn the new technology though because though the syntax is similar it is different enough that they would have to relearn it all, even though the two perform similarly asp.net is much more evolved and brings so much new stuff to the table (such as the view state) that it would take some considerable study and most people would rather just be lazy and stick with asp since it has not cause them too many problems.