Hi all,

I have recently been studying ASP. Several people have commented that I should forget ASP and move on to ASP.NET.

Is studing ASP a waste of time?
Is it easy to learn ASP.NET if you master ASP?

Regards
sbo

Well, I would say there is quite a lot of advantages, such as an extensive library, the ability to use classes and the different languages to choose from. Well, the performance and debugging abilities should not be forgotten either.

If you have programming experience (classes) it should not be too difficult. I have recently changed myself, and I has become very fond of it. I bought a book read it and then I was up and running.

I though that it was a bit errorprone to start with due to the references you have to make. Perhaps because I started using a simple text editor, since I prefer to have a knowledge of all the files that make up a project. I though that if I used MS Visual Studio .NET I would loose this. Now I use it.
If you start with MS VS .NET it should not be too difficult.

Great many advantages; I think.

Hope it helps

Jacob.

I am mainly just an html guy and have never done any "real" programmming. I took a VB.NET class last fall in anticipation of learning ASP.NET. It was a hard class! (just the 1A class)A lot of ADO & SQL(MSDE) twords the end, but it really helped me understand how VB.NET & ASP.NET go hand in hand...If you understand VB.NET(which I haven't fully yet), the ASP.NET becomes more clear!

A year ago I purchased "Beginning ASP.NET E-Commerce With VB.NET and Visual Studio.NET" formerly a Wrox Press...now aquired by APress I think, this is the book I've been looking for! I would highly reccommend this book to someone like me who is learning to develop ASPX Dynamic Web Apps with Visual Studio! You can still aquire the book at amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=books

:D

Kevin

I can speak from experience that if you are learning ASP now, it'll be some time before you "master" it. Even once you have mastered ASP switching to ASP.Net won't be immediately care free. Moving from the purely linear paradigm of ASP to the truly object oriented and event driven nature of ASP.Net takes some getting used to. A lot of things that you used to be able to do in ASP by brute force are not allowed (or at least not recommended) in ASP.Net. If you have the opportunity to learn ASP.Net with whichever language you choose, do so. Development and, more importantly, debug time is greatly reduced.

Peter