Hi, Mike
(As a little "testimonial" if you will) Not being a real developer I am
sort of in a constant state of being "new" to ASP, most of my ASP stuff at
work is just sort of side-projects and not part of my real job,...but
there is no one else around here to do those, so there I am. I chose ASP
Classic originally because ASP.Net had not come out yet,..but I have
stayed with Classic because you don't have to buy anything,...you can just
use Notepad to write it if you want to,...I couldn't afford the .Net
Suite. I've been told you can do ASP.Net with Notepad,..but if it is as
hard as it is with the Suite, it can't be "easier" with Notepad. Since
then I have the Suite via an MSDN Subscritpion when I was an MVP, but that
is getting about 2 years old now (not an MVP now). I worked a little with
ASP.Net but found it a whole lot harder to deal with and even the simplest
things seem overly complex. Then the database access in the Suite is so
heavily geared towards the SQL Express that is packaged with it that it
became a complete mess to try to do anything with Access MDB files that I
always use. SQL Express (or Full) just is not an option in most of my
situations.
So I will probably use ASP Classic for as long as IIS supports it,..and
when it no longer supports it I will probably not do anything at all any
longer. Then I'll just tell people,.."Don't look at me,...I'm not a
developer".
I do get tempted to "piddle" with the Suite from time to time (both VB.Net
and ASP.net) but I don't see it ever becomming more than than. I don't
currently have the Suite loaded on anything, but if I do it will probably
be in a an XP virtual machine (Virtual PC) because the suite is so huge
and intrusive that I don't want it on my machine I use all the time.
Anyway, that is my little story. I don't post much in this group since my
ASP skills aren't that high, but I like reading the answers people get and
try to learn from them. My main area is the Networking Groups with a
particular forcus on MS ISA Server (former ISA MVP).