asp.net 1.1 vs 2.0....

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Why would I want to learn asp.net 2.0? I still haven't mastered all
the functionality in asp.net 1.1. I can buy asp.net 1.1 books for
pennies on the dollar (a lot of them are only 2 years old). I would
have update my visual studio to the most current version...how much
would that cost? What would I truely get from asp.net 2.0 that I can't
already do with asp.net 1.1?

Thanks,
RABMissouri2006
 
Hi,
Why would I want to learn asp.net 2.0? I still haven't mastered all
the functionality in asp.net 1.1. I can buy asp.net 1.1 books for
pennies on the dollar (a lot of them are only 2 years old). I would
have update my visual studio to the most current version...how much
would that cost? What would I truely get from asp.net 2.0 that I can't
already do with asp.net 1.1?

Thanks,
RABMissouri2006
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I still didn't master VC++ 6, and yet I won't go back to that ;-)

Seriously, .NET 2.0 is a huge improvement over 1.1. Many problems have
been corrected, and many improvements made. There are lots of new
classes too. I would definitely recommend upgrading, except if you have
reasons to stay with 1.1 (for example due to your project's infrastructure).

HTH,
Laurent
 
What problems and what improvements? Can you list the top two new
classes that have been created.?

Thanks,
RABMissouri2006
 
You get a better IDE, overall. There are some instances where I believe
functionality has overriden stability, but overall, Visual Studio 2005 is
stronger and has more features.

You get support for types in collections, through generics. In C#, you get
refactoring. In all langauges, you get snippets. In ASP.NET, you get login
controls, membership/profile/role providers and you have a more extensible
model.

If none of this is important to you, then there is no reason to learn 1.1,
except that more and more companies will be switching and your job prospects
will be reduced. But, that might not matter either.

What I am getting to is only you can determine if the benefits outweight the
time you would have to spend.

--
Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA
http://gregorybeamer.spaces.live.com/

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Hi,
What problems and what improvements? Can you list the top two new
classes that have been created.?

Thanks,
RABMissouri2006
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As far as I am concerned, a great improvement is C# generics (including
the Collections.Generics namespace). Generics can be compared to C++
templates without the headaches.

In ASP.NET, the most wonderful change is the possibility to (finally)
create a web application in the file system instead of having to use IIS
(Studio 2005 comes with its own web server).

Other than that, there are a few examples of improvements: You can now
get files in a folders and its subfolders without recursion, you can
register client side scripts in an easier, more logical way.

HTML and XML handling is very much better in the new studio. Validators
make sure that your code is correct as you type. Intellisense is way
better, and makes writing XML, XAML, HTML an amazing experience.

Etc.

HTH,
Laurent
 
Other than that, there are a few examples of improvements: You can now
get files in a folders and its subfolders without recursion
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Hmm how do you do this ??

I do believe I missed this trick :)
 
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