Testing ASP pages in DW CS3?

Question

Hello.
I need to start learning ASP, so I bought a book on it. I
opened up a (very simple) sample ASP page from the accompanying CD
ROM in Dreamweaver (CS3). The page opened and was viewable, but
when I clicked F12 to preview in a browser, the page did not
display. Attached is the full simple code that's on the page. Is
there something else that I need to do in order to get this to
work? Thanks!...

Answer 1

> ...You see, the whole reason this started is because my
boss wanted to me
> learn some sort of new programming language in hopes
that it would
> stimulate
> new ideas for application development. Neither he nor
myself knows
> anything
> about ASP, but I guess he heard something about it
somewhere, so that's
> what he
> picked.
In general, just picking a new language isn't the key to
stimulating new
ideas for app development.
A better approach would be to pick new app development
methods and/or
consider looking at all the various application frameworks
out there.
ASP is pretty much identical to PHP in terms of basic
premise. ASP isn't
being developed by MS anymore, though.
ASP.net is the replacement and is an Object Oriented
Programming language
ala JAVA.
Ruby On Rails is a trendy option these days, so maybe look at
that. It's the
Ruby language written on top of the Rails application
framework. Lots of
proponents of it out there.
> Are ASP and PHP basically the same (I mean, in what they
can achieve)?
In terms of 'what they can achieve' pretty much ANY web
programming language
is going to be 90% alike.
In terms of syntax/logic, ASP and PHP are very close, so no
real benefit in
learning ASP in too much depth (especially since it's not
really developed
by MS anymore).
> a fairly true statement that learning ASP.net after
knowing PHP may just
> be a
> waste of time?
ASP.net is king in the corporate enterprise application
development world.
If that's a direction your company wants to target/head in,
then it makes
sense. If you need to integrate tightly with Microsoft's
other offerings
(office, sharepoint, active directory, MS SQL, etc.) then
ASP.net makes
perfect sense.
Otherwise, I'd say PHP is a really safe place to be. It has a
HUGE market
share, constantly being updated, and so many commercial and
open source
add-ons at your disposal.
-Darrel