COM vs. ASP.NET

[kreplech]

I am new to this newsgroup, and I am sure that this discussion has already been initiated; however, I am interested in hearing different opinions on ASP.NET and its effect on VB-Web use. Where will COM object still be implemented? What advantage will they still provide. What are ASP.NET's shortcommings? Is there a good chinese restaurant is the West Palm Beach area?

Web Dev
Boca Raton, FL
kreplech@aol.com

[Johnny101]

ASP.Net is a great new technology. Use of your existing COM dlls are supported (with a little tweaking). ASP.Net is going to do away with a lot of that type of thing, going forward. When companies first start migrating over to ASP.Net, most of their existing COM components will probably be used. When they time to migrate their biz objects over, they will.

As for use with VB.Net - you write all your ASP.Net stuff from within the VB.Net IDE. It's replacing Interdev (if you want to think about it that way). Another nice thing about ASP.Net is you have several ways of getting code reuse. One major way is by use things called Pagelets. they are, in effect, activex web-based user controls. for a purely code based method - we have CodeBehind pages - pure vb files that intercept all the Page's events and handle the biz stuff there. that way all the presentation logic is in the aspx file and all the biz logic is in the .vb file, which the aspx file inherits. the .vb file inherits the Page object (logically).

this is going to be a really fun and exciting development time. it can't hurt to start playing with it now. once you get used to some of the new syntax and methods, it's really cool.

good luck,

john

ps - i hate chinese food, so i can't help with the restaruant. :)



John Pirkey
MCSD
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