[thelist] Friday Freebie

Scott Dexter sgd at ti3.com
Fri Jul 14 17:11:51 CDT 2000


a full article will come, but for now...

<tip type="looking ahead to ASP+">
The kids over at MS are quite busy, spinning up a new version of VB,
VisualStudio, C++ (called C# --C sharp), and last but in no whay least is
ASP+. ASP+ is the 'next generation' offering from MS that bumps up the ASP
3.0 that comes in IIS 5 (win2k) to participate in MS's new Next Generation
Web Services (NGWS, you will see this acronym a lot soon) architecture,
which VB7 and C# are also built for.

Pros:
* Can happily co-exist with existing ASP code. This means you can run them
side by side, and migrate as you desire
* True separation of code and content
* You can develop in VB (in ASP+ full VB is the default language), VBScript,
Perl, C# and it's all compiled to intermediate code which is then cached.
This way you can develop in whatever you want, even reference objects and
methods across languages (!)
* new tricks like <%@errorpage="..."%> which will redirect (with more
detailed error info than before) to the page of your choosing upon any
error, including syntax errors, where current ASP pages just puke
* HTML Form value persistence by turning the Form into a server-side object.
The best way I can describe this in 5 words or less is, "When you submit a
form, IIS loads it up on the server as if it were a client and fills in the
blanks, and returns straight HTML results."
* Access to the html DOM on the server (this could be *really* cool)

Cons:
* More shite to learn, and to the ASP newbie, this new stuff will probably
be daunting at first (its an entire architecture to learn as opposed to a
scripting language)
* "Simpler" sometimes means a performance hit (because layers of automation
have been added), but this remains to be seen. Here's a rule of thumb I'm
borrowing from multiple places: "Light, Fast, Cheap. Pick any two."
* Win2k only

two sites to get you started:

http://www.aspng.com/ --complete docs, sample code, everything else you'd
expect from Charles Carroll (including the bad site navigation)
http://www.asptoday.com/ --three articles overviewing ASP+
</tip>

sgd
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