Deb, there are some GREAT web sites around to assist with both ASP and ASP.NET. Though I have some $4,000 worth of recent books towering around me here at my desk, if pressed hard I'd have to admit I could get a lot of the information in them for free from these sites. (However I can't take the web sites outside into the office garden and absorb them there!)
Here are just a few sites: http://aspexpress.com/ http://www.aspfree.com/aspnet/Default.aspx http://www.123aspx.com/ http://www.aspalliance.com/ http://www.asp.net http://www.aspfriends.com/aspfriendshome/ http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/ These are the tip of the iceberg... look around on these sites for links to others. Your advisor who proposed that you learn ASP before learning ASP.NET may have been steering you towards a less-steep learning curve, as I suggested yesterday. However it's a very limited system compared to .NET, which permits creation of more powerful and more adaptable applications with less time and effort. How much development do you think most savvy companies are going to do in a less-capable system which requires much more time from their developers to achieve ends? I know a LOT of ASP programmers who are looking for work these days. If your goal is to develop marketable in-demand skills And .NET is very, very different from ASP. Depending on your prior experience you will spend weeks or months on ASP getting up to speed using its various objects, functions, and syntactical conventions, only to find that a great deal of what you learned (as well as the whole approach to solving business problems) is different in .NET. I've been writing and managing projects in VB and ASP/VBScript since the mid-80's, and it's not my ASP experience that's helping me get into .NET, it's my VB5 and VB6 experience with classes/objects, events, etc. Bite the bullet. HTH P.S. HTH = "Hope This Helps"... you'll find a heck of a lot of people with those 'initials' at the bottom of their messages! :-) -----Original Message----- From: deb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 3:03 PM To: ActiveServerPages Subject: RE: asp/xp home HTH: I was considering taking the leap as you say, to .net. I wouldn't have gotten the book had I not been told that it would be better to get the backround of asp by learning the classic asp. I could have gotten a book on the .net. Now I have to sort of stay with this. You are right about one thing, lol, very limted budget!! Are there any good sites online for tutorials for asp.net? I do have a tutorial that I printed off line for the matrix.However, that is strictly for the Matrix. thanks for your help, it is greatly appreciated. --- You are currently subscribed to activeserverpages as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% --- You are currently subscribed to activeserverpages as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
