ASP or what?

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Quick question

I’ve been doing ASP for about 4 years and I’ve had recruitment agents call me and ask if I’ve done .Net to which I have to say no

Should I lie or is there much difference?

By the way I’m pretty naive when it comes to new tech…I’ve learned what I’ve learned and until someone tells me I have to I shy away from learning new things so if ASP & .Net are similar then I don’t know.

Is ASP.Net & .Net different cause I think ASP.Net is the same (or pretty close) as ASP

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There’s a lot of difference. Traditional ASP is a lot like PHP in terms of execution method. ASP.Net is more like Java, it’s compiled to bytecode and then executed.

The “compiled to bytecode” step means that you can write .net in any language - C#, VB.net etc and make use of the same standard library.

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ahhhh I see…fair enough, there are some companies nearby who are converting to ASP.Net, I’ll have to get a job there and learning Java’s always been on the list

a list I haven’t done anything about for four years but I know I should

any tips for what todays web developer should be learning or should know?

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Weel… I’m kinda biased… read more of my posts and see :wink: I’m not too big a fan of MS and .Net and all that stuff…

But Java’s quite a useful language, and Sun has one hell of a lot of tutorials and stuff, so it’s quite easy to learn :slight_smile:

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thanks :thumb:

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www.asp101.com

making the switch to .NET is pretty easy on the surface and it will run all of your regular ASP code.

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hey thanks prstudio, I use that site all the time but hadn’t noticed their bit on ASP->ASP.Net

thanks :thumb: