a general question about ASP

[Desolator144]

I won't bore you with the details so here's the super fast explanation. I work for an IT contractor and I need a contract cuz I'm poor and it's been like 2 months since the last one and I'm a very, very skilled VB.net programmer and I'm good with database stuff. I had one class (as in one day's class period) in college that was like a 1 hour intro to ASP and looked pretty easy. My teacher said if you know VB you can learn ASP/VBscript in "like a week." Well there's a high paying 6 month contract I can take but I need to know Dreamwaver (check) VS (check) SQL server 00 and 05 (check) VB.net (big check) and ASP.net no check there...didn't fully learn that. So I figured I'd ask here since I literally do have a week to learn ASP if I want the job. Is it true that I could really quick learn ASP if I know all about VB or was that a bit of an exaggeration? Btw I do know some php and javascript cuz I got a web programming degree as well as a PC one so that may help a bit too. What do you guys think? Would it be humanly possible to pick it up that fast? Is it really that much like VB?

[Memnoch1207]

ASP and ASP.NET are not the same thing. If you know VB you can pick up ASP pretty quickly, but ASP.NET is completely different than traditional ASP.

I sincerely doubt you can pick up ASP.NET in a week or even a month.

[Desolator144]

Oh yeah, that's right. I forgot about "ASP classic" but whatever. That's just some stupid, old scripting crap. I hate scripting languages lol. At least that's how wikipedia made it sound. So what's so different about ASP.NET compared to VB.NET? Yeah I wouldn't know the framework very well but that's what the VS context menu thingies are for lol. According to wikipedia again, they make it sound simple (but they make a lot of stuff sound simple) They said you've got controls and events and subs and the server even compiles your code into a dll stored on the server. They make it sound like you practically write a VB program and just put it on the server and the user sees the output in webpage form, just with some limitations. Is there really that much more in ASP.NET than VB.NET that would prevent me from quickly learning it?

[mendhak]

It'll be a quick learn, the RAD model for designing web applications in ASP.NET is somewhat close to a windows form application, that's what they've tried to do. But you learn little quirks of web development as you go along, such as the lack of state, page lifecycles, viewstate, and so on.