JavaScript and ASP.NET

Microsoft’s new .NET framework is a very different back end (if it indeed can be called that) than ASP. In fact, ASP.NET technology is not backward-compatible with ASP (see Chapter 15, “Using ASP with JavaScript”). The VB.NET scripting language has many similarities with VBScript, but that is due to the fact that VBScript has many similarities with Visual Basic, one of the core codes of ASP.NET. Included in ASP.NET codes, besides Visual Basic, are the following:

  • XML

  • CSS

  • HTML

  • DHTML

  • C++

  • C# (C-sharp)

At the time of this writing, ASP.NET was still in its infancy (beta), but it has generated a good deal of interest. However, at this stage, JavaScript does not seem applicable. The C# language was designed to be a friendlier version ...

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