Migration from Classic ASP to ASP.NET

One of the design goals for ASP.NET was to make the new platform backward-compatible with previous versions of ASP. However, due to the architectural differences between Classic ASP and ASP.NET, complete backward compatibility is impossible. Fortunately, the migration issue is not as bad as it could be because you can run Classic ASP applications and web pages on the same server with ASP.NET; however, you should note that you cannot share information between the two different technologies.

You can, however, seamlessly upgrade your system from Classic ASP to ASP.NET because of the following reasons:

  • You can run both Classic ASP and ASP.NET applications on the same server and ASP.NET runtime will process only ...

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