Question to the masses ..

[codestorm]

Heya

Question for you all:
I've barely touched .NET so far, but in my limited experience it seems that Javascript ASP would be a better precursor to .NET (even VB.NET) than VBScript, as far as syntax, etc goes? I'm pondering whether to switch our development team to JS ASP from VB ASP, and would welcome any comments on this. codestorm
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[jfrost10]

Javascript is definately the way to go. I'm not even sure if MS is planning on supporting vbscript much longer (for web developement anyways, not sure what they're plan is for Office developers).

In face, alot of the controls in ASP.NET actually genereate javascript code to the page, so you're right: javascript definately is still a part of asp.net.

However, keep in mind that old school asp and asp.net are two different beasts. You'll still need to learn vb.net (or c#) to do the majority of the code behind programming. ASP.NET is still a server-side technology, javascript is only there to enhance it, but they are by no means equal.

My thoughts anyway.

Jack

 

[Ovatvvon]

codestorm ,
from my understanding...Link9 went to an ASP.NET conference a couple weeks ago. Microsoft took a show of hands there from people to see which language they were planning on using. As far as everyone could tell it was pretty much 50/50 between VB.NET and C#.NET.

Don't think too many people will be using Jscript for the .NET programming.

obviously client side javascript is better because it's more compatible between browsers, but I get the feeling you're talkinga bout server side code. I think either VB.NET or C#.NET will be good choices. Don't think you really want to change your team over to JScript....

But, that's just my opinion (and the show of hands fact). Take it for what it's worth. ;-) -Ovatvvon :-Q

 

[codestorm]

Whoah, I think people are misunderstanding my question here.
We currently use VBScript to build ASP, but from what I've seen of *.Net (VB, C#, JScript), they ALL appear to use similar syntax which seems to me closer to current-day Javascript syntax than to VBScript syntax.

It seems to me that for VB.NET, current-day VBScript obviously has more in common in some respects (e.g. simple syntax; DIM), but Javascript has more in common in other respects (e.g. style of object method calls; putting object.method().method())
codestorm
Fire bad. Tree pretty. - Buffy
select * from population where talent > 'average'
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[jfrost10]

ahhh, I see what you mean now.

Yeah, you're right:

C# is tailored more after Java (which Javascript has quite a similarity to).

VB.NET is more in line with vbscript

um, so basically, yeah, what you said.


Jack