Everyone,



The questions we've had submitted to Scott Guthrie are collected below.

We've done it this way to save you all having to read lots of emails in

order to see all the questions. If you've got any further questions to

ask, please mail them directly to the list (aspx@p...) before the 

end of the day.



The P2P team would like to thank Scott for donating his time and knowledge

to answer our members' questions.



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vai108@y... asks:



1.What is the difference between ASP and ASP.NET?

2.what r the features of ASP.Net ?



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aquinn@g... asks:



Why should I use C# / ASP.NET rather than Java / JSP?



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nkamal@z... asks:



Can you explain(briefly) the concept of ASP.NET. Well I'm been ASP 

programmer since last 2 years and throughout that days I found that ASP is 

the best platform if you have a very limited development time.



My other questioned is :



1) Can ASP.NET expand its platform to others platforms such like UNIX, 

Linux rather than NT and IIS platform.



2) How comparetible it is with others browser other than IE.



3) Security issues in the .NET Tools



Thanks. Appreciate you work !!



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carlos@g... asks:



I have read some articles about ASP.NET, and they all talk about "compiled 

code" on ASP. As I understand this it will be possible to compile a 

standard aspx page so it will run faster. 

Is that true or false? 

What will be the benefits/disavantages of compiled code in ASP.NET ?



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roger.jolicoeur@l... asks:



Is it possible to load the .NET components for beta testing on an existing 

server without replacing the current IIS components?  



Is it possible to load the .NET components for beta testing on a 

development workstation without replacing the current Visual Studio 

components?



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seano@a... asks:



Are you expecting to see a crop of third-party Web Services developed in 

the same way that there were a crop of OCXs developed when VB was 

launched?



If so how will they be licensed - per use, per month, one-off charge?   

What mechanisms are likely to be put in place to protect the vendor from 

unauthorised use?



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myasmjj23@h... asks:



Hi,

I am a VB developer holding a MCSD. I've been working for a few months. 

However, I think I have a little experience with VB application 

development. My question is: Do I need any special courses so that I can 

begin programming using the VB.NET framework?

Thanks & Regards,

Mahmood Salama



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seano@a... asks:



I have not yet tried out the .NET beta, but from what I have read about 

about the various server-side controls I am reminded of the VBScript 

library that gets created with every new VI6 project (and then immediately 

deleted by me!).  



I have found the VBScript library makes it easy to create new pages, but 

it's difficult to modify and debug.  I know from conversations with other 

developers that I am not alone here.



Can you put our minds at rest?



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uma1@v... asks:



The ASP.NET is said to have a thread-pool from which a appliction object 

is created, whenever a request for the first page in an assebbly is 

revceived. Suppose the first page instantiates a variable in the 

Application scope using "Application.Add" and after a few more page 

requests, there are no more requests but the object is not set to "Null" 

when will the thread die?



This qustion relates to the Chat Application written by me using ASP.NET 

Web services which can be seen at 

http://aspx.securewebs.com/prasadv/Chatroom.aspx



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hongzhi_sun@y... asks:



What is the way to use asp.net to write web pages with frameset and

frames without using any asp pages?



In ASP I can use transformNode method of the DOMDocument object to 

convert XML into HTML. Is there any advantage if we use this kind of 

XML/XSLT techniques in ASP.net pages?



In ASP we can design a "data-driven" application which dynamically 

generate every page according to the data in the database. The 

maintainence is very good (although the performance may not very

ideal). Is there any way we can develop a "data-driven" application

using ASP.NET?



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rob@m... asks:



I know .net has the feature that developers using different languages can 

work on the same project (finally!).  My question is about the debugging 

process. 



what if a C# programmer and a VB programmer have developed code, but are 

in different parts of a building.  When I am debugging, and stepping 

through the code, can we do this virtually, so that we can both watch the 

debugging process on our own computers while on the phone.  As I step 

through it, I make note of what my VB code is doing, while he is at his 

workstation following along and making note of what his C# code is doing.  

Is this feature being looked at by MS?



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marcelo@m... asks:



I´m a development team leader of Visual Studio and others Microsoft 

technologies. I am concerned about the new VB.NET. Some articles describes 

VB.NET as a totally new language. It's difficult to trainning people 

quickly to absorve new technologies. I would like to receive your opinion 

and more information about .NET plataform.



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vkbade@l... asks:



    1.When you like to fill a dataset from different SQL statements, do i 

have to open/create a new ADODatasetCommand to fill the dataset everytime, 

cant i use the the same ADODatasetCommand with a different query and fill 

the dataset again?



    2. Until ASP 3, we used to open a recordset and directly use the 

records returned using the recordset itself, but in ASP.Net, once you fill 

a dataset, is there a way to directly access the records in the dataset 

without using datacolumn or datarows and looping through it? I mean, if 

your dataset is filled with only one record with only one column such as 

Max value from a database, can u directly access the value like you used 

to before?



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1)  When can we expect to get the beta2 bits if we are MSDN Universal

Subscribers, and also if we are not MSDN subscribers at all?





2)  Will the beta2 bits be released at the same time as the VS.NET beta2?



3)  My company has purchased a marketplace app that runs on Commerce Server

2000.  We are anxious to start adding some functionality to the application

using the .net framework.  Do you know of anywhere we can get some

information about programming against Commerce Server 2000 API's from the

.net framework?





Thanks,

Chris Tinsley

Will the .NET Framework go RTM before the VS.NET does?



Will the .NET Framework be free? can we distribute the frameworks freely

with our own custom solutions?  If not, how can our customers get the .NET

frameworks?



How soon do you anticipate upgrades to the .NET framework and how will these

updates be distributed?  (autodownload ala the VB runtimes? by notice to

current users? etc?)



What are the plans for versions beyond V1?



MCA