Active Server Pages (ASP) is a popular simple Microsoft's script engine for dynamically-generated web pages.
Programming ASP websites is made easier by various built-in objects. Each object corresponds to a group of frequently-used functions useful for creating dynamic web pages. In ASP 2.0 there are six such built-in objects: Application, ASPError, Request, Response, Server, and Session. Session, for example, is a cookie-based session object that maintains variables from page to page. Web pages with the ".asp" file extension use ASP, although some Web sites disguise their choice of scripting language for security purposes. The ".aspx" extension is not an ASP page, but an ASP.NET page, another server-side scripting language from Microsoft, based on a mixture of traditional ASP, and Microsoft's .NET technology.
Most ASP pages are written in VBScript, but any other Active Scripting engine can be selected instead by using the @Language directive or the (script language="language" runat="server") syntax. JScript (Microsoft's implementation of ECMAScript) is the other language that is usually available. PerlScript (a derivative of Perl) and others are available as third-party installable Active Scripting engines.
What is the difference between ASP and ASP.NET and why would developers choose one over the other?
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ASP and ASP.NET
are both server-side technologies
and the similarities basically stop
there. If a developer is interested
in writing less code, we would
recommend ASP.NET. There are a
myriad of other reasons too,
including:
Great tool support provided by
the Visual Studio family and
Expression Studio, which makes
developers more productive and
working with designers much easier
ASP.NET AJAX integrated in the
framework, which allows a better
end-user experience
Breadth of the .NET Framework,
which provides a wealth of
functionality to address both common
scenarios and complex ones too
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