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I’ve moved to a job where ASP is the name of the game.

I’m an intermediate PHP developer, does anyone have any good resources on learning ASP? I constantly find myself googling for “phpfunction in ASP” etc etc.

Thanks,

mei

ouch that is got to hurt. ASP has faded out since ASP.NET came to the stage.

My experiences on finding MSFT information is that you do get many links with little information. if you want to learn it quick i suggest,let them, you buy books.

Thanks. I think that’s the general sentiment when trying to learn ASP. PHP’s developer community alone is an excellent reason to choose it over ASP.

I’ll go and take a look in Amazon…

Mei

poor you, that’s a major step backwards.
I remember the following site being quite a good resource for ASP devs. This was about 8 years ago, so things may have changed
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/

There’s an O’Reilly Book: .ASP in a Nutshell, which I found to be very helpful in working with ASP.

Also, w3schools.com has a reasonably good ASP reference.

Finally, Microsoft makes its VBScript 5.6 Documentation available as a downloadable .chm file, but only for those who are running REAL GENUINE WINDOWS... but you can find it elsewhere on the net.

Thanks for those extras.

For some reason the M$ download is empty, and ASP in a Nutshell is going for £0.01 on Amazon. I’ll trawl through the 2002 - 2003 section of 4guysfromrolla then!

Mei

I used to do VB/ASP. I feel for you. To me, ASP ended up being just like an assortment of PHP pages with include files…ick!

(I’ve daydreamed that if I ever had to go back to ASP, I’d port CodeIgniter to ASP. That would be much more usable and coherent than the code I’ve seen in ASP.)

Try to find the Wrox Press ASP books; I recall they were pretty good. There was a “beginning” and “advanced” book I had access to at my former job.