Porting to ASP .Net

Question

Our website is implemented in ASP and Visual Basic.

I wish to add a few new pages to the site but I wish to do it in ASP .NET MVC with C#. Are ASP and ASP.NET compatible for the same website?

I've done a few ASP .NET MVC tutorials. What would I need to do to get a simple hello world project to work on our server? What will I need to install etc?

Also, our database is implemented for sql server 9.0. Will there be any issues here?

Thanks,

Barry

Please pay attention to your tag choices. The `asp` tag proved to be ambigious, and so was cleaned out in favor of `asp-classic`. For a moment there, you had the **only** question on the site tagged `asp`, and that helps no one. — Joel Coehoorn, Dec 06 '11 at 17:40

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 06 '11 at 17:33

Are ASP and ASP.NET compatible for the same website

The same IIS Web Application can include both ASP and ASP.NET pages.

But nothing will be shared, Session and Application objects are completely separate. To share code it will need to be COM components, and use the .NET tools to create a wrapper.

SQL Server 9.0

That's 2005: fully supported in .NET.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 06 '11 at 20:39

Adding a few bits to the Richard answer:

Create a MVC app and copy over all the asp files
Edit the global.asax and add the following line in RegisterRoutes
```
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.asp/{*pathInfo}");
```
If the root of the site will continue to be an ASP file you have to deal with the routing also

Porting to ASP .Net

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