> I was just wondering if there is something that cannot
> be done in CF and can be done in ASP? Has anyone
> encountered such an instance.
OK, there is one thing that ASP can DEFINITELY do that CF cannot - it sends
the page built so far down to the browser, so if you have a page which is
tons and tons long, or takes a bit to build the first part, then a while to
build the next, ASP will show the first part, then send the next when
ready - CF builds the whole page in one go, and then sends it down to the
client.
The advantage of this? Say you want to do a credit card validation which
takes 1-2 mins on-line, the ASP page can display the "We're trying to
validate your card" and all of the other relevant messages (like
"Connected", "Checking Card Number" etc.) and then the final "Validated"
message. On a CF machine, this would hold the browser for the 1-2 minutes
while it's being calculated.
Personally, I'd rather work in an environment which takes 1 command to
connect to an SQL query, compared to a language which requires 4 or 5. Or is
that just me?
> My understanding is that Active Server Pages (ASP) are
> theoretically equivalent to Cold Fusion Pages but
> using Microsoft proprietary programming. My guess is
> that we can do the same thing with Cold Fusion what we
> can do in ASP.It wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft has
> placed barriers to using other environments with its
> products such as MS SQL Server.
OK, you can connect to any ODBC, OLE DB and COM object in exactly the same
ways for both. It's only a connetion.
Although, the specific tools for IIS work better with IIS products.
Philip Arnold
ASP Multimedia Limited
T: +44 (0)20 8680 1133
"Websites for the real world"
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