Lance Welker

MSIT 526 Datacomm

Dr. Rebman

9/17/2005

Assignment 1 – Research Paper Topic

Topic:  Explore the advantages and disadvantages of adopting Microsoft’s ASP.NET over classic ASP for Web development.  Why should a business switch to ASPX?   

         I.      Principles of .ASP

a.       Introduction and history

b.       Development tools

c.       Programming languages

d.       Approaches to coding

                                                               i.      scripting vs. compiling

e.       Basic page structure

f.         Defining and displaying variables

g.       Web Controls

h.       Database operations

i.         Security issues

j.         Adoption/market penetration

       II.      Principles of ASP.NET

a.       Introduction, history and theory behind the .net framework

b.       Development tools

c.       Programming languages

d.       Approaches to coding

                                                               i.      scripting vs. compiling

e.       Basic page structure

f.         Defining and displaying variables

g.       Web Controls

h.       Database operations

i.         Security issues

j.         Adoption/market penetration

      III.      Similarities / differences between the two

a.       Backward compatibility

    IV.      Advantages or disadvantages of both

a.       Ease of use

b.       Speed of Web pages

c.       Object oriented programming

d.       Cost

      V.      Coding Examples

    VI.      Case study

   VII.      Appendices

 VIII.      Bibliography