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Why use ASP.Net?Now you have a basic understanding of what ASP.Net is and the differences from conventional ASP, we need to consider what advantages there are for a developer who uses ASP.Net. Despite what you may be thinking, ASP.Net is actually a lot easier to learn, use and understand then earlier versions of ASP. Separation of the program code from the main document structure makes it much easier to read and therefore your learning curve will be much faster than with other earlier technologies. Development of conventional ASP pages involved the use of VB Script which was only a limited subset and function of the full Visual Basic programming language. The newer ASP.Net pages use the power of full blown programming languages such as VB.Net and C# so there are no limitations as to what can be done. ASP.Net is much more powerful than previous versions. The full blown programming languages are object orientated (this we will discuss later) which allows efficiencies in development and management of your projects. Due to its new structure and precompiled nature, ASP.Net is much faster to run than conventional ASP. While I appreciate that this will have little impact upon applications developed by beginners, as you move on to bigger and better projects this fact will become significant. ASP.Net has a vast array of user and server controls which can be easily incorporated into your applications to make development fast and efficient. A control is a piece of code which has some predetermined functionality. For example, you might have a date control which displays today’s date in text format. Although this can be done with only a few lines of code it will be quicker to develop a control which includes this code. Each time that you wish to add the date to a page you simply drag the control on to the page in the desired location. Many such controls are available either free or for a fee on the internet and this saves you the work of writing every piece of the code yourself every time you develop an application. Learning .Net will provide a good basis for understanding any of the .Net technologies. A developer who develops web applications using ASP.Net using VB.Net will be able to understand conventional applications developed in VB.Net. Once you have grasped the principals of one .Net technology it will be relatively straight forward to move across to other .Net technologies. Finally, like it or not Microsoft have the biggest market share of computer technologies in the world and they dominate the market place in most areas of IT. If you intend to work in the IT sector it is likely that knowledge of a Microsoft based technology will lead to more employment opportunities than any other technology.
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