I've been working with ASP since it first came out, and yes VFP has spoiled you rotten <g>! Your analogy to dBase II is quite close. The biggest hurdle to overcome with ASP is dealing with interpreted code instead of compiled. That, and trying to make HTML forms do what VFP forms do!
Documentation wise, as Nancy said there are several books available. I personally recommend "Working With Active Server Pages" published by Que (ISBN 0-7897-1115-x). It's pretty good at explaining the whole ASP thing. As for online resources,
http://www.15seconds.com is an excellent place to get info on ASP, ADO, and other related topics.
If you want to debug ASP scripts, you should look into using Visual InterDev 6 for your ASP development. The one caveat is that you have to be using IIS4 as well. VID 6 is also about as close to a RAD tool for ASP as you're likely to find, and it still really isn't RAD. It comes with design time controls for setting up things such as data connections, record navigation, etc. It's WYSIWYG HTML editor leaves a lot to be desired, but it is possible to use a tool like FrontPage in conjunction with VID.
>What is your impression so far of ASP? Mine is:
>- lack of documentation
>- lack of debugger
>- development is defintely not RAD
>
>It is sort of like programming in Dbase II.
>I think VFP has spoiled me. :-)
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