Appendix A. Issues that Arise When Migrating from ASP to ASP.NET

SO NOW THAT YOU HAVE DECIDED TO start writing all your web-based applications in ASP.NET, you must be wondering what issues you will encounter while migrating from ASP to ASP.NET. Unfortunately, this can be a lengthy list, depending on the situation you are in. If you are porting an existing application to the ASP.NET framework, a variety of changes will need to be made to your existing VBScript code. However, of you are starting a project from scratch, you will need to remember only the language and logic changes that are now in the Visual Basic language.

In the next few sections, we discuss the syntactical changes that have been made to Visual Basic. We will also take a look at C# and why you might want to use it for your server-side programming language.

Keep in mind that this is not an exhaustive list of changes between the two versions. This appendix attempts to look at only features that existed in the previous version that have been migrated to the new version. Features in .NET that were not in a previous version will not be discussed here.