Moving from ASP to ASP.NET
Although ASP.NET is based on the ASP technology, a lot of the fundamentals have changed. Here we explore some of the basic changes that you will encounter when migrating from ASP to ASP.NET.
<%%> Versus <script>
In ASP, all server-side code is written between <% and %> tags. This tells the ASP interpreter that everything between the two tags is program code and should be executed on the server.
In ASP.NET, the rules have changed a bit. Now, all variable and function declarations are placed between <script> and </script> tags, while implementation logic is contained in between the <% and %> tags. Listing A.1 shows an example ASP page, and Listing A.2 and Listing A.3 show the same page written in ASP.NET, using Visual ...
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