Appendix A: Migrating from ASP to ASP.NET

Highlights

In this chapter, you will learn how to:

• Recognize issues common to the migration process.

• Migrate a page that accesses data using ADO.

• Use programming practices with classic ASP that will make migration easier.

Migrating classic ASP code to ASP.NET will be a relatively painless process in many cases, particularly if good programming practices were followed in writing the code, such as separating the code into procedures wherever possible. Because of the changes to both the ASP.NET object model and the Microsoft Visual Basic language, which is used in ASP.NET in place of Visual Basic Scripting Edition, you will likely have to make some changes to most (if not all) of your classic ASP pages to make them run in ASP.NET.