VB6 is DEAD!

[szlamany]

ah ok, so you are using ASP.NET, to perform services, just not used for the web-page piece (or so it looks like) I was a little confused there. What tool would you build your page in to host the JS functions? The only thing I have seen is the basic web-forms project in VS2010. I am guessing your response is going to say "any tool that can consume the web service can be used". This seems a bit much, I would think that browser is the best bet to target a wide array of devices. When we talk about .NET becoming deprecated, unless I am misunderstanding, why are we saying that ASP.NET is losing relevance if the services are being built on it? Or do we mean the web-pages as a method of consuming the service? If ASP.NET has no more relevance, then what are we building the sites with?

I launch a small HTML page - which pretty much loads the scripts and then starts performing AJAX calls to login and pull down more HTML or other JSON strings that help build the HTML further.

You never leave the page - the page continues to make AJAX calls and build up further and further.

I should also point out that once I started working with Android devices they simply call these same web methods from the Java code of an Android app.

But in reality the server side can be switched out easily - it's just a layer that passes DATA back and forth from stored procedures. Although I see .Net being relevant as a web service layer between WEB and SQL