Hi everyone,

My organization decided to converts its all Coldfusion and Classic ASP pages to ASP.NET using C#. I have done some work in ASP.NET and I have attended few sessions of CMAP. They ask me to comiple an analysis document which will contain:
1. Should we use 1.0 Plate Form or 2.0? Give the reason for each (why one and not the other)
2. Should we use Web services alot or avoid it as much we could? Please remember that my firm is very much concern with Direct assess to Data Ware House and presently we are using third party tool (sequelink server for oracle) to talk to Data ware house.
3. What is the best approch to convert an application to ASP.NET web application (Any documentations etc)?

I don't have any clue, where to start and what to start first.

Any help will be highly appreciated.

Regards,

1. You should always use the 2.0 platform if possible. 2.0 implements a lot more features and has no disadvantages over 1.x.
2. Web Services are useful if the service will be called from several other applications. If it will only be used by one application, you are best off writing a Business Object or using something 3rd party.
3. This article should explain the migration process:
   http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/coldfusiontoaspnet.asp

Hi,

I read somewhere that I can map in IIS to make .NET read .cfm file extension. I tried it with .NET 2.0, which did not work

If  I map it to .NET 1.0, it works fine. I get the error in my web.config since I am using 1.0.

I have to make it work with 2.0 since that is what we are migrating too.

<configuration xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/.NetConfiguration/v2.0">

Any suggestions as to what and why this is happening?

Thanks

mumbaichef

Are you referring to simply using such an approach so as to hide to the outside world that your app is written in CFML? Or do you mean to have the CFML processed by the .NET framework (because you have no ColdFusion server installed)?

In the latter case, you may have read that this is indeed possible by using a 3rd party product, BlueDragon.NET. It extends .NET (and IIS) to run CFML pages by way of the bluedragon.dll which is a managed assembly that implements a CFML runtime atop .NET (1.1 or 2.0). It's not free, but it does open doors to tremendous integration between CFML and ASP.NET (and .NET objects). You can learn more about it from a couple of MSDN webcasts I did when I worked with that company:

http://bluedragon.blog-city.com/ms_webcast_part2_recordinghtm.htm

http://bluedragon.blog-city.com/ms_webcast_part1_recording.htm

You can also learn more at the company's site: www.newatlanta.com

Hope that's helpful.

/charlie