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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 >>