I have just about mastered standard ASP (VB) on DW MX but want to move forward.

What is the best to learn and what is the difference ? Also what language is best to use... VB or Javascrip or C# ?

Any advise before I start a new learning curve would be great. Thanks.

Hi

The 'natural' progression for a classic asp developer is probably ASP.NET, but it is your choice. ASP.NET applications can be developed using either VB.NET or C#, but to run these you must have the .NET framework installed in IIS, so that's a change for your development server and your production/host server. Server-Side Javascript/JScript is another option, but a different kettle of fish altogether.

The good thing about the .NET framework is, it allows you to run both classic asp and ASP.NET on the same server, giving you room to continue to develop classic asp whilst learning .NET, however, within an application you cannot mix classic and ASP.NET pages as they are treated as different entities, so session state is lost, .NET doesn't allow you to mix languages in an application either.

Phew, after all that, you're a classic asp developer using vbscript, which is a subset of VB and so the 'natural' choice would be ASP.NET using VB.NET as what you've learnt so far can help you in the future.

I've gone the same route, classic to ASP.NET using VB.NET and currently studying for my MCSD/AD certification, I've yet to build an ASP.NET app yet tho, a lot to learn before I start coding.

Try www.asp.net it's a great resource and you can download their free editing tool, chopped down Visual Studio.NET

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