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Asked: 2026-06-11T14:54:07+00:00

I’ve been asked to make a website with VB.NET server-side code, and I cannot

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I’ve been asked to make a website with VB.NET server-side code, and I cannot use ASP.NET or any client-side scripting. The pages need to interact with a Microsoft SQL Server database hosted on a Windows 2003 server (which has IIS and the .NET framework installed). I’ve been googling for examples, but all the ones I find seem to be about ASP.

I have some basic PHP experience, and can program in VB.NET, but I’ve never had to do anything like this before. Can anyone give me a reference or basic example that I could play with that will help me connect an html webpage to the SQL database with VB.NET as my server-side code, without using ASP.NET?

Edit and clarification: I know ASP.NET is server-side – what I have been specifically banned from using is any tag starting <asp: or containing runat=server. If there are other features of ASP.NET that I can/need to use, then that’s fine.

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    More specifically, I’ve been told I can’t use any tags starting “<asp:” or containing “runat=server”

    You can at least use IIS, and the .Net tools within IIS, right? You’re not completely re-implementing a web server?

    Just make a handler (*.ashx), and use Response.Write() ,<%=, and <%: for everything.

    You should also look into whether you can use ASP.Net MVC (it doesn’t need server controls at all). Otherwise you’re essentially back in the dark days of classic asp.

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