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You can this site or the various other links that this provides.
What other language do you know?
Uhgar
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RushiShroff
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If you want to learn Online,
an excellent resource
High quality articles and code
Microsoft guide to web technology
High quality articles
Good code/explaination
Excellent explainations
Apart from this Aspin.com/aspfree.com/ are good refrences.
This is the list of top most web sites offering very good understanding of asp.bUT NOW .NET is in.So better
focus there.Whatever.
In books as far as I am concerned,I have always trusted one book and for the last 3 years IT seems to be fulfilling all my requirements.
ASP 2.0 Unlished-SAMS(Techmedia)
I dont know much about other print resources but this book is really GOOD !!
Rushi@emqube.com
an excellent resource
High quality articles and code
Microsoft guide to web technology
High quality articles
Good code/explaination
Excellent explainations
Apart from this Aspin.com/aspfree.com/ are good refrences.
This is the list of top most web sites offering very good understanding of asp.bUT NOW .NET is in.So better
focus there.Whatever.
In books as far as I am concerned,I have always trusted one book and for the last 3 years IT seems to be fulfilling all my requirements.
ASP 2.0 Unlished-SAMS(Techmedia)
I dont know much about other print resources but this book is really GOOD !!
Rushi@emqube.com
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There's more differences in ASP and ASP.NET than could be posted here in this forum.
First of all, you'll have more choices in languages, and that's because they are implementing "managed code" into ASP, which more or less means "compiled" rather than ASP's "interpreted" code, which will make the new .NET pages run much faster and more efficiently.
In all the journals I've looked at, it looks like MS is trying to push C# as the new ASP language, rather than the traditional vbScript, which might present a bit of a learning curve to alot of us, but is really exciting considering the fact that the new C language is much more powerful than vbScript, supports true Object Oriented principles including the best one of all, inheritance.
Considering that the official release date for the .NET platform has already passed, then if you are trying to learn a web technology, I would strongly discourage making old school ASP the one. I mean... it's hard enough trying to keep up with the latest trends in this industry. There's no need to start yourself behind the 8-ball. Leave that to the universities, ok? ;-)
good luck!
paul
First of all, you'll have more choices in languages, and that's because they are implementing "managed code" into ASP, which more or less means "compiled" rather than ASP's "interpreted" code, which will make the new .NET pages run much faster and more efficiently.
In all the journals I've looked at, it looks like MS is trying to push C# as the new ASP language, rather than the traditional vbScript, which might present a bit of a learning curve to alot of us, but is really exciting considering the fact that the new C language is much more powerful than vbScript, supports true Object Oriented principles including the best one of all, inheritance.
Considering that the official release date for the .NET platform has already passed, then if you are trying to learn a web technology, I would strongly discourage making old school ASP the one. I mean... it's hard enough trying to keep up with the latest trends in this industry. There's no need to start yourself behind the 8-ball. Leave that to the universities, ok? ;-)
good luck!
paul
is a good resource that I've found, as well as the first one that was mentioned,
RushiShroff
Programmer
first thing you need to know about asp.NET: it is NOTHING like old school asp. Old school asp was basically just putting in a few <script> tags in html documents and writing vbscript.
asp.NET is more akin to Visual Basic, and it switches from a "programming language" of sorts to a programming technology that allows programmers to move their applications to the web.
In asp.net, you now have the concept of "code behind", which visual studio developers have enjoyed on the desktop for years. now, you have a web form that holds the controls (like a windows form) and a code behind file that holds all the code for that form (like a code behind for a windows form)
asp.net also allows you to code in whichever language you want (assuming its supported in the .NET framework). Some of those languages are VB.NEt, C#, C++.NET, Cobol.NET, J#.NEt, and others being developed. The reason all these languages work is because of something called the Common Language Runtime. All .NET languages eventually get compiled down to this CLR, which allows a vb app to talk to a C# dll (VERY kewl, and VERY dynamic in what you can do). Presently, the actual asp.net applications can be done in vb.net or C# languages, but if you write a dll in J# or C++, your asp code can access those functions as if they were written in the same language!
This whole .NET thing is super exciting to get into, and is VERY powerful! To answer your questions, here's what I suggest:
1. Get a copy of the .NEt framework AND a copy of VisualStudio.NET. You can program asp.net with a good ol' text editor, but you won't get all the benefits as you would in a graphical interface
2. Wrox is your friend. Wrox press has alot of really great books on .NET. Be careful though, as many were written before the visual studio.net days, so they're all written old school way. Mind you, since thats what you're familiar with, it may be great place to start
3. Start learning XML if you dont already know it. XML plays a HUGE part in .NET, and knowing it will definately give you a leg up.
asp.NET is more akin to Visual Basic, and it switches from a "programming language" of sorts to a programming technology that allows programmers to move their applications to the web.
In asp.net, you now have the concept of "code behind", which visual studio developers have enjoyed on the desktop for years. now, you have a web form that holds the controls (like a windows form) and a code behind file that holds all the code for that form (like a code behind for a windows form)
asp.net also allows you to code in whichever language you want (assuming its supported in the .NET framework). Some of those languages are VB.NEt, C#, C++.NET, Cobol.NET, J#.NEt, and others being developed. The reason all these languages work is because of something called the Common Language Runtime. All .NET languages eventually get compiled down to this CLR, which allows a vb app to talk to a C# dll (VERY kewl, and VERY dynamic in what you can do). Presently, the actual asp.net applications can be done in vb.net or C# languages, but if you write a dll in J# or C++, your asp code can access those functions as if they were written in the same language!
This whole .NET thing is super exciting to get into, and is VERY powerful! To answer your questions, here's what I suggest:
1. Get a copy of the .NEt framework AND a copy of VisualStudio.NET. You can program asp.net with a good ol' text editor, but you won't get all the benefits as you would in a graphical interface
2. Wrox is your friend. Wrox press has alot of really great books on .NET. Be careful though, as many were written before the visual studio.net days, so they're all written old school way. Mind you, since thats what you're familiar with, it may be great place to start
3. Start learning XML if you dont already know it. XML plays a HUGE part in .NET, and knowing it will definately give you a leg up.
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