Combined ASP and ASP.NET site

[VBwriter]

Hi,
Due to the nature if our current intranet I wondered whether it is feasible to do further developemnt in ASP.NET but keep, for now, the traditional ASP stuff on the site.
Can anyone give any advice about this and point out any issues?

Many thanks.

[Jerry Grant]

Both should be able to run on the same server as far as I know. The .NET Framework must be installed on the Web Server, together with the Windows component update. This allows aspx files to be processed using the JIT compiler.

All you need to do is call asp pages from aspx pages and vice versa.

Before you put the .NET stuff on a server, try it out on a Win2K pro desktop with IIS and .NET Framework installed, this should let you evaluate any issues clear of your live intranet.

[SimonRigby]

ASP and ASPX can run in the same application BUT .. and it a big BUT.

The ASP pages will not share any resources with the ASPX pages or vice versa. This includes and session variables, application settings etc etc etc.

I have got around this by sending any session information between page types by including it in the URL when redirecting. But this is V tacky. And you need to make sure that you keep the two copies synchonised. Plus you now have the added overhead of almost twice as much memory used to maintain state.

Hope this helps

Simon