>Hi Rick..
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>Actually, I have a question...< bg >..
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>Have your worked with ASP.Net? What is the primary difference between the ASP we have now and ASP.Net. I have been slow to get up to speed on all the .Net stuff. I am taking a 2 day developer class (the national $499 one...) next week.
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>Any insights you have would be most appreciated... I am trying to get a bearing on where we are vs. .Net...

I haven't done much more than create a few sample apps and demos with ASP.Net. The main difference is Web Forms which drastically change how you build HTML pages with objects rather than HTML text. The model is actually rather nice and it's much faster than classic ASP. Also, of course you use ADO.Net which IMHO provides a much nicer object model for data access that fits better into a Web framework than ADO did.

On the whole - big changes if you've been doing classic ASP coding. Much stricter rules for how ASP code runs (parameter naming, looping structures etc.) because scritps are basically compiled pages that must have everything in place when they start running.

Biggest issue here is learning the object models of all those controls and all the interrelationships between objects...

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