What exactly is ASP.NET vs. just the simple ASP code that a beginner like me is learning by reading all these postings? No, its more than a simple ASP code, it has so many new features that you always wanted while using ASP. UT postings are gr8 source to enhance ur skills but to start with it better you learn from web.
Is it a newer version of ASP or IIS ? Does it have a GUI developer environment, or do you still just code in a text editor? it is a enhanced and powerful version of ASP and yeah you can call it new because there are few things which are now not supported in ASP.net to cope with .net CLR.
you have the worlds most amazing GUI available i. e. VS.net, u really cant ask more than that, however you cud also code in text editor.
Do I have to update IIS on my Win2000 Server?download here
http://www.asp.net/download.aspxyou need to have .NET SDK installed thats it.please note that ASP and ASPX pages can co-exist. if you want to migrate ASP pages to ASP.net than it involves lot of work.
Does it require users to have a certain version on Internet Explorer?
well i dont know exactly but one thing is sure it must support IE 5 and above
For more detailed info. goto
http://www.asp.net/Tutorials/quickstart.aspxhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/aspnetmigrissues.asp?frame=true
Best Luck..
Nilesh