what is .net?

[velious]

what is .net?... I've been reading up on things employers are looking for, and ASP and ASP.net were on their...whats the difference?..

[miranda]

here is a few differences

ASP 3.0 (Classic ASP) the static html is interspersed with the server side code. ASP 3.0 uses scripting languages like JScript VBScript PerlScript etc. In ASP the code is interpretted by the server

In ASP.NET The server-side script is completely isolated from the static HTML. You can use any run-time language, such as JScript and C#, in addition to Visual Basic. In ASP.NET the code is compiled by the server.

[Roy Sinclair]

.NET is confusing because MS's marketing department grabbed hold of the term and muddied the waters considerably so now it's hard to get a clean definition.

What I consider .NET to be is the current generation of MS Development tools, languages and processes.

[velious]

thanks

[zoobie]

A top level domain? :cool:

[firepages]

there can be only 1 .net (http://www.php.net)