Which one to use: 1.1 or 2.0?

[dw]

Hi, all. I'm an ASP.NET newbie and have access to both Visual Studio 2005
Beta 2 and Visual Studio .NET 2003. If I'm building my first ASP.NET
production app, which do you recommend? Is it easier to learn/use 2005 or
are there more resources available for 2003? I have a strong background in
ASP, but this is all new to me. If you can provide some pluses/minues of the
two, that would be wonderful. Thanks.

 

[Lucas Tam]

Hi, all. I'm an ASP.NET newbie and have access to both Visual Studio
2005 Beta 2 and Visual Studio .NET 2003. If I'm building my first
ASP.NET production app, which do you recommend? Is it easier to
learn/use 2005 or are there more resources available for 2003? I have
a strong background in ASP, but this is all new to me.

ASP.NET is totally different from ASP... so whatever experience you have in
ASP you should throw it out. I found my old "ASP" way of thinking of things
actually hindered the .NET learning process.

In anycase, if you're building a test application I would go with .NET 2.0.
If it's a production application, perhaps stick with .NET 1.1 unless your
client doesn't mind running beta software.

 

[dw]

Thanks, Lucas. That's what I was thinking about beta, too. Microsoft says
it's pretty solid, but it's still a beta product. So if something breaks,
the client will say "why did you use beta software to build our app?"

 

[Kevin Spencer]

My philosophy is this: NEVER use beta software to do professional work! That
said, I seem to run into situations almost constantly where I have to, but
not by choice!

--
;-),

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
Sometimes you eat the elephant.
Sometimes the elephant eats you.

Thanks, Lucas. That's what I was thinking about beta, too. Microsoft says
it's pretty solid, but it's still a beta product. So if something breaks,
the client will say "why did you use beta software to build our app?"

 

[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

ASP.NET 2.0 is significantly easier than ASP.NET 1.x (and WAY easier than
old ASP).
However, the documentation is still somewhat sparse for ASP.NET 2.0. There
are a lot of articles in magazines and online that describe the features
that can help you, but they're all based on various beta versions of ASP.NET
2.0 so they may not all work without modification.

So if you're adventurous, I'd say skip directly to ASP.NET 2.0. If you're
the conservative type then stick with ASP.NET 1.x for now.

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Hey Steve,

What if you're the adventurous conservative type?

--
;-),

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
Sometimes you eat the elephant.
Sometimes the elephant eats you.

 

[dw]

Well, I'm the cowardly conservative type! I'll stick with 1.1 for this
project. I've noticed how easy it is to open 1.1 files and convert them in
2.0. However, I do love the features of 2.0 which just aren't available
without some workaround or something in 1.1.