what is the diff between ASP and ASP.NET?

Answer 1

Very different, ASP and ASP.NET are two completely different implementations of Microsoft's server-side coding strategies ASP is similar to Perl while ASP.NET works like how Java Servlet/JSP works. There's no commonality between ASP/.NET except the name.

Answer 2

ASP.NET has better language support, a large set of new controls and XML based components, and better user authentication.
ASP.NET provides increased performance by running compiled code.
ASP.NET code is not fully backward compatible with ASP.

ASP.NET uses the new ADO.NET.
ASP.NET supports full Visual Basic, C# (C sharp) and C++.

ASP.NET components are heavily based on XML. Like the new AD Rotator, that uses XML to store advertisement information and configuration.

Main advantage of ASP.NET compared to ASP is object oriented approach to software development. Well, ASP does support classes.You could write an object-oriented business logic layer but this layer was encapsulated into COM and COM+ (DCOM) objects.

ASP is no longer an interpreted language, rather it is now a compiled language. What does that mean? It means that when a page is called in ASP the script is read and executed by a command line interpreter one line at a time. With ASP.net the pages are compiled common language code executing on the server. This allows for advantages and forces some changes in the traditional ASP programming.

Answer 3

ASP means Active Server Pages. ASP.Net is the imporoved version of ASP.Net which works on .Net platform providing many flexiblities and facilty and languages integration. The file extension of ASP webpage is .asp while asp.net webpahe is .aspx

Answer 4

ASP doesn't have ".NET" after it

that was a tough one...

Answer 5

the ".net" part most likely