crawforddavid2006

ok, my cousin was recently hired on as a programmer at some company. i dont know all the details, but he needs to learn VB.Net, and ASP.Net. can you use a vb.net app on a webpage? yes i realize that is probably a stupid question, but i dont know much about the use of vb.net

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big_k105

VB.NET can be used as the code behind language of the ASP.NET web application.

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Jimbo

What he said.

A little more detail: ASP.NET 2.0 and newer splits the pages into two parts, markup and code-behind (ASP.NET 1.x had them in the same file so the following still applies). The markup is just basically HTML with a bunch of ASP tags thrown in that get interpreted server-side. The code-behind is C# or VB code to actually do the server side logic (think of how PHP is server-code embedded in an HTML document, except with ASP it's preferred to keep the code in a separate file). With recent versions of .NET, you can also use IronPython and IronRuby for the code-behind.

Silverlight and WPF are similar to this. The UI is actually defined in a XAML document (basically another XML file) and the actual code for each control is in a code-behind page. (other than that, they're not really the same at all, but I thought I'd throw in the repeated use of the code-separation pattern.)

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Jabo

I think another option for the code-behind is J#.

lectricpharaoh

Eww.

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Ghost

J# or C#

www.asp.net, watch the videos under the "Learn" area of the site. Very helpful.

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Jimbo

J# support has been dropped.

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Jabo

I've never even tried to use J#; can't think of one thing it offers that netbeans or jedit won't do. But it's the only java option for ASP.net isn't it (or wasn't it)?

Jimbo

Never used it myself, but I think it wasn't really Java either. But it's dead, and my co-workers rejoice, so it must be a change for the better.

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