[thelist] .NET: general questions.

Howard Cheng howcheng at ix.netcom.com
Thu Jul 18 13:12:01 CDT 2002


At 10:50 AM 7/18/2002 -0700, Chris W. Parker wrote:
>1. are any third-party programs needed to develop .NET applications?

No. The bare-bones approach is using Notepad and the .NET compiler. Of
course there's also Visual Studio (VS.NET which costs $$$) and ASP.NET Web
Matrix (free from MS) as IDEs.


>2. right now i use VBScript to write ASP pages when making a web
>application (if you can call them applications). how does the
>terminology go with .NET? do you write .NET pages? can you still you
>VBScript? do you HAVE to use VBScript?

They are indeed called web applications. Applications are made up of web
forms (.aspx pages), which in turn can include web user controls (.ascx
files). VBScript no longer exists in .NET. You would be using VB.NET, or
any other supported language, such as JScript.NET, C#, and J#. I personally
prefer C#. All of them are strongly-typed full-fledged programming languages.


>3. i've heard that C# is more like C++. is this correct(or am i making
>this up)? if so, is a third party program required to compile the code?

C# is like a combination of C++ and Java. The compiler is included in the
.NET framework. J# is MS' version of Java, which is supposedly almost
identical to Sun's Java, but with some "extensions" and "additional
features" by MS.


>4. is downloading the .NET framework the only thing required to start
>using .NET for the web?

Well, you also need IIS, but basically yes.

HTH.


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