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Switching from Classic ASP to ASP.NET

One of my goals this year (or should I say the first six months of this year) is to learn C# and .NET.  Currently at my work, our entire intranet is written in Classic ASP.  Being a smaller company we never really had to make the switch, and we could probably get by a little longer but you never know when Microsoft will pull the plug on regular ASP. 

I was also researching the advantages of .NET over Classic ASP and came across this section on Wikibooks - I thought this was a good explanation of the advantages of .NET; for example, .NET is able to use any .NET compiled compared to ASP's interpreted VBscript or Javascript. The interpreted code also slows down performance.

I've got a couple of Murach's books I'm reading on C# and ASP.NET; I've also been using some online resources to help explain any questions that pop up. (these books are really good as well)  So far, I've got a pretty good understanding of the C# code, just need to get used to the syntax.  Now I'm trying to get familiar with the .NET stuff within Visual Studio.

I'll have another update on my progress in a couple of weeks!

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