convert my asp pages to asp.net

[Emad Ramadan]

I have finished a new project and I'd like to convert my asp files to asp.net
to add more efficiency on the site .. so anybody can send me the detailed
method to convert them ?

Thanks alot from Qatar

[Irfan Rizvi]

ASP.NET framework is very much different from unstrucured ASP and there is
no correct way to just transform it into ASP.NET pages, and if you reall
y want to convert your application and make it ASP.NET based then you have
to re model it and code again almost all the pages , the most prominnet reason
why you will do this are

1. ASP supported scripting languages such as VB Script or Javscript while
ASP.NEt supports proper Object oriented languages such as C# or VB.NET etc

2. In ASP.NET you do proper Event based programming which was impossible
in ASP

3. ASP.NET seperates the code part from HTML parts , which in case of ASP
all mixed up

4. ASP.NET introduced server controls which aree much powerful then ASP controls

i think the few above differnces made my point clear that ASP.NET and ASP
are very differnet things

"Emad Ramadan" <dotnet272@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>I have finished a new project and I'd like to convert my asp files to asp.net
>to add more efficiency on the site .. so anybody can send me the detailed
>method to convert them ?
>
>Thanks alot from Qatar

[Greg Rothlander]

This is true if you want to completely covert the ASP to ASP.Net and replace
the ASP controls and items with ASP.Net version.... but you do not have to
do this all at once.

I've converted a number of ASP websites to ASP.Net by simply renaming the
ASP page to ASP.Net and fixing few errors. VS will add the code-behind class
file and connect the ASP.Net to your VB.Net code (or C#). When you recompile,
you will find a few errors that come us like using SET. You can simply fix
the errors and recompile. I've converted dozens of these pages in just a
few hours.

This doesn't take advantage of all that .Net has to offer, but it's at least
a start. I simply want to make point that you do not have to completly embrace
everything that is .Net to simply start using .Net in your existing applicaitons.

Of course this all depends on the ASP page and how it was written. If you
where doing all of your business logic in the ASP page (I haven't done that
in over 3-years) and you want to move that code to the code-behind (you don't
have too) then you may have some issues depending on how complex your code
is.

If all you want to do is rename the ASP to ASPX, you will have very few issues
to get the page to run. Then as time permits and you enhance the pages,
you can move your code into the code-behind.

We've been migration our applications into .Net one page at a time. We had
to go ahead and rename the ASP files to ASPX to allow our session variables
to work correctly. We also had to fix a small number of bugs, but it was
pretty simple. It probably took me 5 to 10 minuts per page.

Here a few points regarding each of the previous replies items that where
listed...

>ASP.NET framework is very much different from unstrucured ASP and there
is
>no correct way to just transform it into ASP.NET pages, and if you reall
>y want to convert your application and make it ASP.NET based then you have
>to re model it and code again almost all the pages , the most prominnet
>reason why you will do this are

This is true except that you can convert ASP to ASP.Net very simply. Of
course you will not be able to take advantage of everything that is .Net,
but as time permits you can add it.

>1. ASP supported scripting languages such as VB Script or Javscript while
>ASP.NEt supports proper Object oriented languages such as C# or VB.NET etc

Yes, but it still supports VBScript and Javascript. You can convert this
in steps as needed.

>2. In ASP.NET you do proper Event based programming which was impossible
>in ASP

Yes, but existing ASP code will work in ASP.Net pages

>3. ASP.NET seperates the code part from HTML parts , which in case of ASP
>all mixed up.

That's not completly true. I've been sepearting my HTML from my business
logic code (mius about 8 lines in VBScript in the beginning of the page)for
over 3 years and I have no problems with it. It depends on your ability
to handle the use of DLL's for your business logic.

Do this made the converstion to .Net very simple.

>4. ASP.NET introduced server controls which aree much powerful then ASP
controls

Yes, but you do not have to implement them as soon as you start converting
to .Net. Your old ASP code will still work. As time permits and as you
need too, add .Net server controls to your page.

[harshita]

Thanks Greg.. it was really helpful.
What if I want to convert the entire web application into ASP.net at once and correct the errors later, what exactly is the procedure to do that.

Please guide.

[Hack]

Welcome to DevX harshita

You do realize, don't you, that you responded to a thread that is over 6 years old?

Have a look at this article.