# Difference between ASP and ASP.NET

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**Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 10:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/difference-between-asp-and-asp-net/300666/1 "2009-11-25T10:47:15Z")

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ASP stands for Active Server Pages. [ASP.NET](http://ASP.NET) is the next generation of ASP. After the introduction of [ASP.NET](http://ASP.NET), old ASP is called ‘Classic ASP’.

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Classic ASP uses vb script for server side coding. Vb Script is not supported any more in [ASP.NET](http://ASP.NET). Instead, [ASP.NET](http://ASP.NET) supports more languages including C#, [VB.NET](http://VB.NET), J# etc. [VB.NET](http://VB.NET) is very similar to vb script, so it should be easy for old Visual Basic or ASP programmers to switch to [VB.NET](http://VB.NET) and [ASP.NET](http://ASP.NET)

VB Script is a simple scripting language, where as [VB.NET](http://VB.NET) or C# are modern, very powerfull, object oriented programming languages. Just for that reason, you will be able to write much more robust and reliable programs in [ASP.NET](http://ASP.NET) compared to ASP.

In classic ASP, there was no server controls. You have to write all html tags manually. [ASP.NET](http://ASP.NET) offers a very rich set of controls called Server Controls and Html Controls. It is very easy to drag and drop any controls to a web form. The [VS.NET](http://VS.NET) will automatically write the required HTML tags automatically for you.