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ASP Hosting - Why Do People Still Use Classic ASP?
by Lisa S Foster on Mar 9, 2010
Did you notice that many people are still usingASP? This is somewhat strange due to the popularity of.NET. Why arethey still using the classic instead of the new and powerful ASP.NET?First of all,.NET has XML-based components, better language support anduser authentication, and a huge set of new controls. It can alsoincrease performance by running code that is already compiled.However,.NET code is not backward compatible with ASP code, makingtransitions somewhat time consuming. Classic, unlike ASP.NET, isrunning under the IIS process space, otherwise knows as inetinfo.exe.It is prone to crashes and can also force the IIS to be restarted..NEThas the entry point in the IIS, the process itself is separate from it.Classic does not know how to operate on non-Microsoft platforms (forexample on the Apache server) whereas.NET is fully capable of doing so.Classic only supports JavaScript and VBScript as scripting languageswhile ASP.NET can work with all.NET languages. Classic ASP has...Read More >>
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ASP Hosting - Why Do People Still Use Classic ASP?
Did you notice that many people are still using ASP? This is somewhat strange due to the popularity of.NET. Why are they still using the classic instead of the new and powerful...
The difference between ASP Classic and ASP.NET
Asp.net is the next generation Microsoft’s web-application programming technology. There are basically two variants of ASP (Active Server Page), ASP Classic and ASP.NET.
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Asp.net is the superior version enabling the websites more attractive and with more features. This is more capable to provide the user-friendly features. ASP.NET is the better option for web based programmers to make dynamic pages. Huge features of ASP.NET is making popular among programmers.
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