Classic HTML and Server-Side Controls
Most Web development involves interacting with user data in one way or another. Much of this data is contained in forms that users have filled out. Other items that fall into the user data category are things that are passed as parameters or contained in session variables. Web development in the past has always dealt with this kind of user data. ASP.NET provides a new way to interact with this data. It is a much more traditional way of programming than classic ASP programming, more closely resembling traditional Visual C++ or Visual Basic development.
Classic ASP programming can be used to create ASP pages that contain both HTML and VBScript code. The HTML is static—it doesn’t change—whereas the ASP code ...
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