ASP Requirements 1

[NetworkGuy101]

I am currently a Coldfusion Guy looking to learn ASP. My question is can ASP do everything that CF can as far as providing dynamic data? Also is there any additional things that ASP requires to run? like Server software? Is this Free?

 

[Krishna751204]

Its best to move ASP.Net instead of Asp. As ASP.NET has more features and the syntax is similar to Cold Fusion. And have more advantages than Cold Fusion. I worked on Cold Fusion 4.5 version.

To run asp, Internet Information Server (IIS) or Personnal Web Server (PWS) is needed. These servers will come along with Windows Operating System for free of cost. If these are not installed on your system, install it from the windows component of the Operating System Software.

To run ASP.Net you need IIS and DotNet Framework, you can download DotNet FrameWork from microsoft website for free of cost. For developing applications you can use VisualStudio.Net or other free IDE's which are available on net.

Regards
Krishna Reddy M
mckreddy@visualsoft-tech.com

 

[ryandoah]

To add to the above. Yes ASP, in either version can do everything that CF can do and more in some cases. I currently have two sites that were originally built in CF that I am slowly converting to ASP and have had major problems as of yet. Coding asp pages requires more typing, because some of the functions aren't prepackaged as in CF, but I think it works out ok. My primary crutch right now is figuring out how to use the NT Indexing Service with ASP instead of the Verity with CF. Also, there are thousands of sites dedicated to learning asp, so chances are someone has built exactly what your working on and has posted the results.

 

[ryandoah]

Make that no major problems. :]

 

[Krishna751204]

Hi,

Check the following articles on How to use Indexing Service with Asp. These articles will solve your problem to some extent.

http://www.asp101.com/articles/john/indexserver/default.asp

http://www.asp101.com/articles/john/indexserver/part2.asp

http://www.asp101.com/articles/john/indexserver/noisewords.asp

I will suggest to move "ASP.Net" instead of ASP from ColdFusion.
As ASP.Net syntax is similar to ColdFusion and easy to learn. It provide access to windows API with easy to use syntax.

Regards
Krishna Reddy M
mckreddy@visualsoft-tech.com