Difference between ASP and ASP.NET

[aandybinaton]

ASP.NET is the new file extension: ASP.NET pages use .aspx, as opposed to the .asp extension used with ASP. Additionally, when an ASP.NET page is requested, IIS hands off the request to the aspnet_wp.exe process; ASP uses asp.dll.

ASP and ASP.NET can both be used on the same Web server. That is, a Web site or Web application within a site can contain both ASP.NET pages and ASP pages. Because both ASP and ASP.NET pages can be accessed from the same Web server, you are not required to port your existing ASP pages over to ASP.NET-compatible pages. However, there are many advantages to porting your application from ASP to ASP.NET.

Some of the biggest advantages include:

Increased performance: Microsoft tests have shown that ASP.NET applications can handle two to three times the requests per second as classic ASP applications.
Increased stability: Processes are closely monitored and managed by the ASP.NET run time, so that if one misbehaves, a new process can be created in its place, which helps keep your application constantly available to handle requests.
Increased developer productivity: New features like server controls and event handling in ASP.NET help developers build applications more rapidly and in fewer lines of code. It is also easier than ever to separate code from HTML content.

Unfortunately, porting existing ASP pages to ASP.NET pages is almost never as easy as simply renaming the file extension from .asp to .aspx because, among other factors, there are significant differences between Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) and Visual Basic .NET. The good news is that most of the needed changes are syntactical and automatic. Visual Basic .NET code that uses COM components can virtually be left as is; C# code, however, requires a bit of extra code to work with COM components, which is beyond the scope of this document.

[scroozlewis]

Active Server Pages (ASP) is a server-side scripting environment that you can use to create and run dynamic, interactive Web server applications. With ASP, you can combine HTML pages, script commands and COM components to create interactive Web pages and powerful Web-based applications that are easy to develop and modify.
ASP.NET is a web application framework developed and marketed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic web sites, web applications and web services. ASP.NET is built on the Common Language Runtime (CLR), allowing programmers to write ASP.NET code using any supported.NET language.

[cuinan]

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[lukepedru]

The primary difference between ASP and ASP.net is that ASP.net code can be written in any CLR language, while ASP can only be written in, well, ASP. ASP is an actual language, but ASP.Net is frequently written in C# nowadays. ASP has been around a really long time. ASP.NET is more or less a more current name for ASP. It's been around since maybe 2002.

[mickeyfridia178]

ASP is Microsoft’s early foray into server side scripting engines that were meant to dynamically create web pages as they are needed. Creating that in HTML would require a lot of pages, one for each possible result. But with ASP, you can write a single short script that can handle this easily. ASP.NET aims to make the transition to web programming easier for those who are already knowledgeable in creating programs for Windows. ASP.NET also offered some improvements over its predecessor.

[jhonstwewart]

ASP and ASp.NET is the scripting language that is use in programing many of the cointent can you use. ASP.NET contains compare to a large set of HTML controls. Almost all HTML elements on a page can be defined as ASP.NET control objects that can be controlled by scripts.

[valentinohill11]

ASP:
• Is not really Object Oriented; it utilizes more of top-down programming style, where code starts executes and go till the end. You can utilize functions, sub-routines, classes and other objects.
• You are restricted to using either Visual Basic or JavaScript scripting languages.
• All variables are worldwide of type variant, which like its equivalent in VB6, is an object that can be any object type, from a string to an integer to a Word application object.

ASP.NET:
• Is Object Oriented, utilizes event-driven model, where all code executes to event, like a mouse-click, or Page Load, etc.
• You can use various languages to write code Visual Basic, C##, J##, Ruby, even Visual RPG. All code is compiled to utilize similar CLR that resides in .NET Framework.
• Variables are powerfully typed, and similar scoping rules that apply in any recent, major programming language.

[raanrater]

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[cuinan]

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[aloysiuscarl]

I should certainly choose ASP.NET over ASP. It is far superior in virtually every way.I love ASP.NET. Its phenom.The goals of ASP.NET was to eliminate the need to stop the running Web application whenever components of that application need to be updated or replaced that is, updating an application should be as simple as using xcopy.