16.5. Migrating ASP to ASP.NET

16.5.1. A brief word on compatibility of ASP and ASP.NET

As we mentioned in section 16.1, ASP.NET was developed for the Microsoft .NET family and for the future of Windows platforms. The front end design of ASP.NET is to help preserve the applications and investment of traditional ASP technology. Many ASP pages can be converted to ASP.NET without the need to change anything. There are some fundamental differences between ASP and ASP.NET, as follows.

One of the major differences is that ASP is an interpreted environment. Languages used in ASP are interpreted by the script engine and then the results are sent to the browser. Although transparent to most users, ASP.NET on the other hand is a compiled environment. ...

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