What's the basic difference between developing in ASP and ASP.NET?
I'm about to take a class and the materials I have confuses me. Isn't .NET just a newer version of ASP? :confused:
Sub classes can inherit properties of upper classes.
The debugger is better.
etc...etc...etc...
Actually, the biggest difference is that ASP is a server-side scripting language, just like php and many others. Scripting languages are not compiled, but merely interpreted at runtime by the server. ASP.net is actually compiled into some kind of executable that the server runs. The executable spits out the results that the user sees on the client end. Therefore, ASP.net is actually closer to other .net languages than to ASP. The syntax may be similar, depending on your preferences, but the execution is worlds different.
NET is a completely different architecture. NET is a framework that provides numerous system classes to many different programming envrionments, asp being only one of them.
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