Hi,

I'm a classic ASP guy that admittedly doesn't know much about C# or ASP.NET. I was asked to edit a C# page (it only contained a simple code behind statement) to perform some IP address checking.

So I wrote some simple ASP to extract the info from the server variables only to find the page no longer runs.

Does the aspx interpreter not handle classic asp? Do i need to declare my segment of code as classic asp? If so, how?

Any help will be gratefully received

cheers

Why not take the ASP code and convert it and type it in the code behind file? It would be a good start to learning ASP.NET.

thanks for the reply, but I would rather avoid playing with the code behind stuff as it would then affect the rest of our clients, I want it to be specific for this one particular client. I am assuming that the actual code that is referenced by the code behind instruction is not copied if duplicate the original calling page.

And yes, you are right, I probably do need to get my hands dirty with ASP.NET / C# so this could be a good start.

Cheers

I guess I don't quite see what you want. Did you write a page entirely in classic ASP and you can't get it to run at all, or are you trying to mix them somehow?

J

No, the aspx runtime is set up to parse and run .NET resources only. So if you create an ASP page it's process thru the ASP processor.

It sounds like you are asking "can I write ASP code in a file with an ASPX extension?"

The answer to that question is "well, yes/no/sort of."

If you put a <% %> section with code that is CLR compliant in an ASPX page it may very well work. However, you should avoid it because it goes against the whole UI/logic separation technique of ASP.NET. Furthermore, if you tried using functions unique to VBScript in the ASPX page it would definately break.

What it comes down to is this: Either just write a regular ASP page that you are familiar with, or learn how to write ASP.NET the correct way. If you try to munge the two together you will only taint your ASP.NET learning and will complicate things for yourself in the future.