Go-to and Stop

Hello, everyone. It is good to be back! I have had a job transition to go through, which has prevented me from contributing on this page as I would have liked. It is good to blog here again!

A friend said I should backtrack a little and speak of what ASP actually means. I know those of us in the know use the acronym quite extensively. For those not as familiar, ASP stands for Active Server Pages. An ASP file may contain text, HTML tags and scripts. ASP file scripts are executed from the server.

The cool thing about ASP is that it uses server-side scripting to produce dynamic Web applications. Because they are server-side, it will not matter what kind of browser you view it with. So no matter how slow or old your machine might be, you can see the animation and other impressive attributes programmed into the page.

It is also cool that asp.net – the next era of Web development, not merely the latest version of ASP – is built on the Common Language Runtime, which means programmers can write asp.net code with any supported .net language.

With asp.net, it is a breeze to build Web applications with C#, a full-featured program language, or vb.net.

Next time, we will look into the pros and cons of C#.