ASP.NET by Example

Chapter 3. Migrating From ASP to ASP.NET

Most of you reading this chapter are wondering at this point how this book is going to help you learn ASP.NET while at the same time assisting you in migrating your existing ASP applications to the new .NET framework. Yes, Microsoft has come out with yet another methodology that requires you to relearn what you have learned and redesign your existing applications (if you want to take advantage of this new architecture's features). In Chapter 2, “An Introduction to ASP.NET,” you learned why you want to go through all of this pain and trouble; now we're going to go over what's necessary to actually do it. Although the rest of the book is dedicated to new techniques and applications of ASP.NET, this chapter ...