ASP and ASP.NET

[Gilgamesh]

Hi there,
We have a legacy ASP application which we would need to continue to support.
There's a need to add new functionality to the application, which I intend
to implement it in ASP.NET if possible. The asp application is hosted in a
secured environment with users connecting to the app using SSL. I was
wondering if there's a way to do this without creating a separate asp.net
web application.

I appreciate any comment.

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Both ASP and ASP.Net pages can be hosted together. They are handled by
different ISAPIs.

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Kevin Spencer
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Microsoft MVP
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[Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\) [MVP]]

You can start building the ASP.NET functionality in the same application and
go back and forth. NOTE that session state is not the same, so you have to
migrate over any session variables when you go back and forth. MSDN online
has an article on session state sharing between the two.

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Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

The main problem is that there is no single great way to share session state
between ASP and ASP.NET.
But that doesn't mean you don't have options.

Here are some common ways:
* Store the data in a common database
* Pass data from page to page on the QueryString
* Store the data in cookies
* Use a 3rd party session sharing component
(Here's one:
http://www.consonica.com/solutions/dotnet/statestitch/index.html)
* Use COM Interop to provide an object that both sides can access that
handles the data.
Here's an example of the latter:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/ConvertToASPNET.asp

Eventually you'll likely want to convert your old ASP stuff to ASP.NET.
Here's more info on good ways to do that:
http://www.able-consulting.com/dotnet/aspnet/asp_aspnet_files/frame.htm
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/ConvertToASPNET.asp