Classic ASP crash course [closed] - asp-classic

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Closed 10 years ago.
I'm a C# and PHP developer. At work, I just got some classic ASP stuff dumped in my lap. I only need to make edits for a few weeks so I don't want to have to learn too much about legacy stuff I'll never touch again. However, I do need to be able to do my job for this duration.
How can I get a good crash course in ASP? I need to get good-enough at it very quickly. What sites/books/resources would best fit this need?

http://www.w3schools.com has a really good ASP tutorial. It's actually what I used when I went into classic ASP from a PHP background in school.

realistically, classic ASP is just VBScript + a couple of libraries that handle web interaction.
The fastest way is here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d1wf56tt.aspx
understand the basics of VBScript (it's relatively tiny)
then understand the basic objects of classic ASP
Request
Response
Server
Session
Application
ASPError

check out http://www.devguru.com/ and go to the vbscript section for quick references to their functions

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When to use Umbraco? [closed]

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Closed 9 years ago.
I am a asp.net webforms developer (have 4 years of expirience), and have some expirience with MVC and razor engine + normal front end like jquery/templating and so on. Im used to build sites up from scratch. Yesterday ive got an idea to learn one of the CMS systems which everybody talks about. I chose Umbraco to be the system of my choice. Ive lerned some basics like templating, document types, content handling and so on.
Right now i really dont see when i should use umbraco and when to use plain asp.net webforms/MVC to build a website.
Can anybody explain me what is it that make umbraco so good that alot of people use it? The only thing i can see is that it makes some clear structure of a webpage.
As with all other Content Management Systems (CMS), they are build for the end-users to manage the content of their website in an easy way without the need of understanding, html, php or other programming languages.
Besides this, Umbraco is a powerful and flexible CMS build on the ASP.NET Framework and it is free and open-source.

Symfony2 and flat PHP CMS [closed]

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Closed 10 years ago.
I've got a CMS which I have been building over the last couple of years which is pretty big and does what the website needs perfectly. I'm about to re-build the frontend of the website using Symfony2 and was just looking for re-assurance that I could use my existing CMS which has no Symfony2 components and is pretty much flat PHP with a Symfony2 frontend? I will probably even put the CMS on a subdomain of the website so the website files will be completely separate but would obviously share the same database.
Yes, there's no reason why you wouldn't be able to do this. You'd want to be careful of things such as result caching though as values may be updated in a completely separate system that wouldn't invalidate the cache.
Have you considered just using Silex instead if this is just for the frontend? It's much more lightweight so should provide better performance.

Real asp.net memory leak or is visual studio to blame [closed]

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Closed 11 years ago.
I've been working on a small aspx website all week; this morning I noticed that my local instance was running extremely slowly. When checked in task manager, my webdev.WebServer40.exe process had a ~1.2GB working set. After restarting visual studio and running the site for about an hour afterwards the memory total is only about 100MB.
Is this an indication that serverside code is leaking memory somewhere, or is the webserver process just inefficient about cleaning up junk that accumulates over dozens of rebuilds?
Most likely it's something in your code. The webserver itself isn't likely a problem, as .NET developers all over the world would have noticed it and raised a stink by now.
There's really not enough information here for us to tell you what the exact problem is. You'll need to look into it yourself or get someone who's more familiar with ASP.NET to help you. However, general guidelines are available online.
See this article for guidance for .NET in general: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff647813.aspx
or
Quick things to check when you experience high memory levels in ASP.NET
or (darn, this makes the quesiton a duplicate.) here: ASP.NET Website Memory Usage quite high

What is faster ASP.NET MVC or Ruby On Rails [closed]

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Closed 12 years ago.
This is not meant to be a subjective or argumentative question.
I am investing some time in learning ASP.NET and more specifically ASP.NET MVC and I am curious how it stacks up to the competition. I really like what I am seeing so far with the framework, and I think the icing on the cake would be if it shows rock solid speed like I have seen with some ASP.NET form sites.
Has anyone done or seen fair comparisons or benchmarks? I would be interested to see how ASP.NET MVC stacks up against other solutions such as PHP MVC too.
If you compare just raw execution .NET is faster than PHP or RoR. However, the speed and overall performance of an application depends on its architecture. For example: StackOverflow runs on less than 10 servers. I work for a company that runs a website with pretty much the same hardware (+- 10 heavy work servers) but SO is way faster and has hundred times more access that my company's website.
So in most case it is really about how you implement the software other than the platform itself.
You can not compare the language only based on speed. Each language has its own features. So you need to choose as per your requirement.
For example. If you want less spendings on hosting and other stuff then go for PHP else if you want pure MVc then gofor ruby on rails or asp.net mvc.

Recommend a source for ASP.NET templates? [closed]

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Closed 10 years ago.
I am going to build a basic small business site for myself and would like to get a head start with a quality ASP.NET template and don't mind purchasing one.
Can you recommend a reputable site I might check out for this?
not specifically asp.net but http://www.themeforest.net have some good themes which could easily be used in asp.net
I think you would need to know what exactly you are going to do. If you are just after a web page template then look at a css web page template
If you are planning to have some sort of specific functionality and interactivity then how about Kentico which is a CMS system.
Failing that, there are a good few choices if you download the Microsoft Web Platform Installer
Regards,
Dom
Although Wordpress is used more for blogging and not asp.net, I like the aesthetics of its available themes and you can easily port them an asp.net:
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/
Not a template site, but this gave me ideas and inspiration:
http://ecommercegallery.com/

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