On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Lists <lists@xxxxxxx> wrote: > ASP (Classic) and ASP.NET = two different things. > > en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages > > Personally, I don't see a reason for putting anyone, or any > company through the torture of building web apps with > .NET. ...VBSCRIPT for the web just doesn't make sense to > me with the other solutions that are available... but > I suppose decisions are made for many reasons that can > force, perhaps less than optimal methods. Funny, since ASP.NET does not use VBScript (Classic ASP can, with JScript being the alternative). ASP.NET is basically a web framework for the .NET language platform. It's a bit more complicated than that, but I hardly see the reason(s) for it not making any sense as a development tool for web sites. As a VB.NET programmer, I can move seamlessly between developing command-line, GUI, and web applications... much like I can as a PHP programmer (minus the GUI part, I suppose, but Gtk+ can probably help with that). For that matter, I don't see why VBScript as a web development language is frowned upon so vehemently. So you're sending your output to an object rather than a pseudo-function (echo)... big deal. Class instantiation can be a pain with the Server.CreateObject() method, but I hardly see how one solution is automatically "less than optimal". Most of the same tips and development methods are prevalent in BOTH languages (talking about VB/ASP.NET and PHP)... but one uses <% and one uses <? (which, coincidentally, is less than optimal when dealing with XML). I'm not trying to get on a high horse here, but I felt VB.NET/ASP/ASP.NET deserve a voice if they are being mindlessly smashed on flimsy evidence, suspicion, and anti-MS bandwagoning. I love OSS too, guys! That doesn't, however, make all closed-source software into The Devil. -- // Todd I was just ninja'd during this post by Andrew, who brought up a good point about file uploading ... although I have to say--ASP.NET handles it with an incredibly simple control. Put the tag on your page, reference that tag's internal ID in your code. Done and done. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
