Migrating from ASP to ASP.NET

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Microsoft’s release of Active Server Pages (ASP) spawned a new revolution in Web application development that provided developers with a powerful server-side platform for creating dynamic Web applications. Microsoft’s ASP.NET development environment provides an exciting new technology for creating Web-based applications that includes functionality not readily available in “classic” ASP. This document introduces ASP.NET and examines a few of the reasons why migrating ASP applications to ASP.NET is worthwhile.

Microsoft’s ASP.NET development environment provides an exciting new technology for creating Web-based applications that includes functionality not readily available in “classic” ASP. This document introduces ASP.NET and examines a few of the reasons why migrating ASP applications to ASP.NET is worthwhile. Topics covered include:

1. Active Server Pages: Pros and Cons
2. What is the .NET Framework?
3. ASP.NET Pros
   1. Language Choice
   2. Code Compilation
   3. Server Controls
   4. User Controls
   5. Caching
   6. Session Management
   7. Security
4. Recommendation of Best Practices

General Description

Microsoft’s release of Active Server Pages (ASP) spawned a new revolution in Web application development that provided developers with a powerful server-side platform for creating dynamic Web applications. ASP’s success can be tied to several factors including its scripted language environment, the ease with which data can be integrated into Web pages, and its overall low learning curve. These positive factors along with others have made it one of the most popular Web application development technologies in the world.

No matter how good a particular technology is there are always inadequacies that are discovered as the technology matures. ASP is no exception. Microsoft realized this early on through customer interaction and feedback. They knew that although ASP was very good at allowing developers to rapidly create dynamic Web sites, a new and improved technology needed to be developed to fill in some of the technology gaps. The technology they developed to fill these gaps is now known as the .NET Framework. Before discussing some of the pros found in the .NET Framework and ASP.NET, let’s take a quick look at a few of the ASP technology gaps that Microsoft needed to fill.

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