Question

I’m jumping into updating an ASP(.NET) website coming from a PHP background and am trying to get my bearings. I think it’s ASP (not .NET) since the code is not compiled and it seems to be using ADODB, but I’m really quite clueless.

So, how can I tell if the code I’m working with is ASP or ASP.NET? Bonus points if you can tell me how to know what version of ASP(.NET) I’m working with.

Answer 1

ASP file extension is .asp, whereas ASP.Net has .aspx.

ASP files contain VBScript code between <% and %> tags, and may start with

<%@ Language=VBScript %>

ASPX files start with the line

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="pagename.aspx.cs" 
        Inherits="webname.pagename" %>

and typically contain components marked by tags such as < asp:Label … >
and have a code-behind file called .aspx.cs or .aspx.vb.