VB.net & ASP.net

[Laphan]

Just a really quick question to clarify something.

VB.net is basically the .net version of VB and the premise is that this is
for creating an app.

ASP.net is basically the .net version of ASP and the premise is that this
for running server-side apps for a web site.

I believe the 2 are now supposed to use similar code and be more integrated,
but the above are differentiated by what I have stated - right?

If there wasn't a difference then you would have the 2 names - right?

Finally VB.net isn't something that you can put in a page to run
client-side, in other words this would download to the client machine and do
it's thing - right? If so, surely this can't work on Macs and Netscape Nav.

Thanks for any clarification you can give.

Rgds

Laphan

[Aaron Bertrand [MVP]]

> VB.net is basically the .net version of VB and the premise is that this is

> for creating an app.
>
> ASP.net is basically the .net version of ASP and the premise is that this
> for running server-side apps for a web site.

You're half right. ASP.net is the "enhanced" version of ASP. It is not a
language; ASP.net pages can be written using VB.Net (which is not just for
applications), C#, etc. However VB.Net and C# can be used for a lot more
than just server-side web pages, much like VBScript and JScript can
currently be used for more than just server-side web pages.

> Finally VB.net isn't something that you can put in a page to run
> client-side

No, you still need client-side code for that, however many of the apps you
will build do much of the hard work for you. I suggest asking these
questions in a dotnet forum rather than here.

--
Aaron Bertrand
SQL Server MVP
[url]http://www.aspfaq.com/[/url]

[Laphan]

Thanks for the info Aaron


Aaron Bertrand [MVP] <aaron@TRASHaspfaq.com> wrote in message
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> VB.net is basically the .net version of VB and the premise is that this is
> for creating an app.
>
> ASP.net is basically the .net version of ASP and the premise is that this
> for running server-side apps for a web site.

You're half right. ASP.net is the "enhanced" version of ASP. It is not a
language; ASP.net pages can be written using VB.Net (which is not just for
applications), C#, etc. However VB.Net and C# can be used for a lot more
than just server-side web pages, much like VBScript and JScript can
currently be used for more than just server-side web pages.

> Finally VB.net isn't something that you can put in a page to run
> client-side

No, you still need client-side code for that, however many of the apps you
will build do much of the hard work for you. I suggest asking these
questions in a dotnet forum rather than here.

--
Aaron Bertrand
SQL Server MVP
[url]http://www.aspfaq.com/[/url]