Difference between ASP and ASP.NET

[roshell]

ASP stands for Active Server Pages. ASP.NET is the next generation of ASP. After the introduction of ASP.NET, old ASP is called 'Classic ASP'.


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Classic ASP uses vb script for server side coding. Vb Script is not supported any more in ASP.NET. Instead, ASP.NET supports more languages including C#, VB.NET, J# etc. VB.NET is very similar to vb script, so it should be easy for old Visual Basic or ASP programmers to switch to VB.NET and ASP.NET

VB Script is a simple scripting language, where as VB.NET or C# are modern, very powerfull, object oriented programming languages. Just for that reason, you will be able to write much more robust and reliable programs in ASP.NET compared to ASP.

In classic ASP, there was no server controls. You have to write all html tags manually. ASP.NET offers a very rich set of controls called Server Controls and Html Controls. It is very easy to drag and drop any controls to a web form. The VS.NET will automatically write the required HTML tags automatically for you.

[parul1234]

thnk frnd I want to add one more thing .NET is latest technology ..

[shakir]

Both are server side script but the concept and technologies are different. .net is full of object oriented

[Lillian]

hi! Difference between .NET & VS.NET....?

[rkbehera1]

You have described everything in details in your post. I would only like to add that we need both for designing SEO keywords rich Web-page backlinks.

[jenyhil]

The main difference between ASP and ASP.NET, ASP.NET is object oriented and all the element of the page are object.

[AnthonyBeldt]

ASP has no inbuilt facility for Validation of controls, but ASP.NET have provided inbuilt facility for validation of controls.

[webmasterseo]

asp is script base language but asp.net is using the c# code.

[rehan507]

you have described it yourself but i would like to add:

ASP.NET has better language support, a large set of new controls, XML-based components, and better user authentication.

ASP.NET provides increased performance by running compiled code.

ASP.NET code is not fully backward compatible with ASP.

[onealgrambal]

Active Server Pages (ASP) is Microsoft’s early foray into the server side scripting engines that were meant to dynamically create web pages as they are needed. An example of a dynamically created web page is an on-line calculator where you input two number and after you’re done it presents you with the sum. 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 has seen a fair share in the internet creating pages on the fly.

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.

Here are some of the advantages of ASP.NET over ASP:

• ASP.NET takes advantage of the additional features in the .NET library allowing its pages to be coded in any of the other languages included in .NET.
• ASP.NET also has a very wide array of libraries and controls that can be used to build a web page quickly and easily. It also had a lot of the commonly used templates like menus.
• Error Handling has also been improved compared to ASP by making use of the try-catch blocks and exception handling.
• A compiled code format allowed ASP.NET scripts to perform faster during execution since it doesn’t need to be compiled by the server when called. It also meant a lot less errors when it is already deployed since errors were easily found when you attempt to compile a script..