New app is ASP, then migrate to ASP.NET 2.0
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Hi, One of my clients started developing a new web app in ASP.NET 2.0. After a couple of months into development, they decided it was taking too long, that the same app would take them 3-4 months to complete in ASP, and then they would migrate to ASP.NET 2.0. I am wondering if there is anything they can do now in the new ASP app that would make migration to ASP.NET easier. For instance, would it be easier if they, and can they, use VS2005 to develop the new ASP app? Can they develop the new app over ASP.NET 2.0 and have the old ASP Server classes such as Server, Request, Reponse, etc., available to them? Or rather what will they not be able to do in the classic ASP way, in VS2005 and .net 2.0, that they could do when it was just ASP? What are the big hurdles that typically come about when code is ported from ASP to ASP.NET, and could they do something now, in the new ASP code base to prevent that? Any info is appreciated. Thanks. -Shefali
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Hi, One of my clients started developing a new web app in ASP.NET 2.0. After a couple of months into development, they decided it was taking too long, that the same app would take them 3-4 months to complete in ASP, and then they would migrate to ASP.NET 2.0. I am wondering if there is anything they can do now in the new ASP app that would make migration to ASP.NET easier. For instance, would it be easier if they, and can they, use VS2005 to develop the new ASP app? Can they develop the new app over ASP.NET 2.0 and have the old ASP Server classes such as Server, Request, Reponse, etc., available to them? Or rather what will they not be able to do in the classic ASP way, in VS2005 and .net 2.0, that they could do when it was just ASP? What are the big hurdles that typically come about when code is ported from ASP to ASP.NET, and could they do something now, in the new ASP code base to prevent that? Any info is appreciated. Thanks. -Shefali
You can do classic ASP style coding in ASP.NET 2.0, not that I'd ever want to. You can just open an aspx page and hack at it just like you did with ASP, but you lose a lot of the ASP.NET features. I'd see what they are having trouble with and guide them in the right direction for the new platform before I helped them take a step backwards like that. Also, Server, Request and Response are all there in ASP.NET it would be difficult to write any real application without using them, so that question makes me think they aren't understanding something about ASP.NET and are making things harder on themselves. They are just delaying the inevitable by going back to ASP and it is going to take longer for them to do the port then they would have lost learning ASP.NET.
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