Versions of ASP

[Zac5]

Hi,

I am new to ASP.NET and have become very confused with versioning between IIS, .NET Framework on a client, .NET Version on the server and version of ASP code. I have the following questions:

*How are these things related and what are the impacts of differences in versions?
*What are the various ways in which you can tell what version of ASP an application is written in, e.g. Classic ASP, ASP.Net, ASP.Net version 1.1 or ASP.Net 2.0?
*Is the .NET Framework needed just for development or hosting a .NET application or is also needed on the client side to surf content that is written in .Net

Please can someone take the time to explain this, thanks,

Zac

 

[ca8msm]

* IIS is the web server that hosts and serves the pages. The latest version is IIS6.
* The .NET framework will either be 1.0, 1.1 or tha latest which is 2.0. This needs to be installed on the server but not the client.
* The easiest way to tell which version the site was written for is probably to check the web.config file (or look at the site in IIS which should show which version it is running under).

Does that help?


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[Zac5]

Thanks for that ca8msm. That helps somewhat but is there any difference netween the version of .NET Framework and the Version of ASP.Net, are they in Sync, what I mean is, does Microsoft upgrade the version of ASP.Net with the new release of the .Net Framework? Can I host ASP.Net 2.0 code on a .NET Framework 1.1? Other than perhaps a difference in functions what determines the version of ASP code, is it the IDE, e.g. whether the code is developed/compiled in Visual Studio 2003 or 2005, or is it something else?

Thanks.

 

[ca8msm]

is there any difference netween the version of .NET Framework and the Version of ASP.Net, are they in Sync, what I mean is, does Microsoft upgrade the version of ASP.Net with the new release of the .Net Framework?

No, both are referring to the same thing. If you are using ASP.NET 1.1, you are using version 1.1 of the framework. If you are using ASP.NET 2.0, you are using version 2.0 of the framework.

Can I host ASP.Net 2.0 code on a .NET Framework 1.1?

No, they need to have the correct version of the framework installed.

Other than perhaps a difference in functions what determines the version of ASP code, is it the IDE

The different versions of the frameworks have different classes and methods (although most are the same). The IDE will use the relevant compiler to compile the application (VS2005 will use the 2.0 compiler, VS2003 will use the 1.1 compiler). If you are using VS2005 you have to use version 2.0 and if you are using VS2003 you have to use 1.1.


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[Zac5]

Thanks a lot for the clarification ca8msm. That was helpful .