Migrating from ASP to ASP.NET

Re: Any tool to convert asp code to asp.net code?

satwant17 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:29:34 GMT

http://www.netcoole.com/asp2aspx.htm

this is a expensive solution but it works

Re: Any tool to convert asp code to asp.net code?

Mr^B — Fri, 22 May 2009 09:21:23 GMT

chandrashekarthota:
Curt,

I am sorry for my reply. After googling i finally found its hard to get a tool.

With your words I am really planning to Create a converter. Any plans to join me..?

I will start researching common things in both asp and asp.net which can be replaced and for functional things and like to store them in database and retrive them with some extra tough logic.

Thanks in advance if you join me.

Chandra Shekar Thota

Visual Developer Asp.Net MVP(since 2006)

Microsoft themselves gave up on the converter as the two frameworks (if you can call Classic ASP a framework) as just so vastly different that it's just not worth the effort.

There's almost nothing common between asp and asp.net - and the things that are have multiple implementations in asp.net.

Take something simple, like a page with a load of inline <%= variable %> tags - how do you start converting that to use labels? How do you give the labels a meaningful name?

Besides which a straight no-fuss automated migration of asp to asp.net will not yield ANY benefits at all, you might as well keep it in classic ASP, and in many ways the asp.net version will be inferior:

1. Non-optimal use of framework

2. automatically generated variable names lead to code which is hard to read and even harder to understand

3. it'll be undocumented

4. if it's automated no-one will really understand what the new code is doing.

If you check this forum, there's always people wanting a short-cut from classic to .net - and it's just not going to happen - it's not an upgrade, it's a whole new way of writing web applications.

This may sound like a problem, but it isn't really - if you have a really large classic asp application that needs supporting, then just support it, classic asp support from Microsoft isn't going to go away any time soon...

Re: Any tool to convert asp code to asp.net code?

chandrashekarthota — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:35:09 GMT

Curt,

I am sorry for my reply. After googling i finally found its hard to get a tool.

With your words I am really planning to Create a converter. Any plans to join me..?

I will start researching common things in both asp and asp.net which can be replaced and for functional things and like to store them in database and retrive them with some extra tough logic.

Thanks in advance if you join me.

Chandra Shekar Thota

Visual Developer Asp.Net MVP(since 2006)

Re: Any tool to convert asp code to asp.net code?

Curt_C — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:03:39 GMT

chandrashekarthota:

I checked this link

http://www.15seconds.com/News/News.asp?News_Id=550

Being a MVP you should know this. Please suggest if such tool exist.

1) it doesnt work well and

2) you are out of line with such a comment. I wish you the best in future endeavors but you will receive no assistance from me again.

Re: Any tool to convert asp code to asp.net code?

budugu — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:27:45 GMT

Here you go..But it has some limitations.

http://www.asp.net/downloads/archived/migration-assistants/asp-to-aspnet/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms973813.aspx

Re: Any tool to convert asp code to asp.net code?

chandrashekarthota — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:18:52 GMT

I checked this link

http://www.15seconds.com/News/News.asp?News_Id=550

Being a MVP you should know this. Please suggest if such tool exist.

Re: Any tool to convert asp code to asp.net code?

Curt_C — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:13:44 GMT

nope....

1) rewrite it.
2) pay somone to rewrite it.

That's about it........

Any tool to convert asp code to asp.net code?

chandrashekarthota — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:59:16 GMT

Do we hav any tool to convert asp code to asp.net code?

Please suggest ....