Chapter 1. Jumping from ASP to ASP.NET
When the original .NET Framework (which ASP.NET runs off of) was released in February 2002, some of my colleagues were skeptical and wrote the Framework off as a passing "fad" and chose to stick with Classic ASP. I would later be accused of "drinking the Kool-Aid" by said colleagues because I was eager to begin playing with ASP.NET in all its glory! Looking back on this, I can't say that I blame them; we all had become very intimate with ASP, and all of the web sites that we maintained ran on an ASP Framework. Nothing was broke, and my colleagues saw no reason to fix it. While this ideology of not upgrading based on the initial release of a new technology made sense, it began to hold less water with me ...
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