ASP to ASP.NET Migration Assistant

The ASP to ASP.NET Migration Assistant is designed to help you convert ASP pages and applications to ASP.NET. It does not make the conversion process completely automatic, but it will speed up your project by automating some of the steps required for migration.

In this guide, you will find:

• Instructions on how to download and install the migration assistant and accompanying code sample
• An introduction to the ASP to ASP.NET Migration Assistant.
• A comprehensive set of white papers on technical conversion issues.
• Source code for a Web site before and after conversion.
• Extensive guidance on how to best leverage ASP.NET, including new best practices material from the Prescriptive Architecture Guidance (PAG) group.

This guide contains three sections

1. Download and Install the ASP to ASP.NET Migration Assistant
   Visit http://www.asp.net/migrationassistants/asp2aspnet.aspx and follow the instructions to download and install the ASP to ASP.NET Migrations Assistant and the accompanying code sample.
2. Using the ASP to ASP.NET Migration Assistant
   Moving to ASP.NET is generally accomplished in two steps. First you port the existing ASP application to ASP.NET and then you can optimize the application to fully leverage the .NET Framework. This section covers the initial migration using the Migration Assistant to automate some of the steps.
3. Optimizing Your Migrated Site For ASP.NET
   Sites migrated using the Migration Assistant can leverage the benefits of the .NET Framework, but there are still many optimizations that can be made to fully utilize the power of ASP.NET. This section describes how to optimize the ASP.NET site ported from ASP in the previous section.

You might also be interested in the following resources:

Migration Services

ArtInSoft, a Microsoft Partner, offers ASP to ASP.NET Migration services to help you migrate your applications.

Webcasts

• Best Practices: Migrating from ASP to ASP.NET Part I
• Best Practices: Migrating from ASP to ASP.NET Part II

Whitepapers

How to Share Session State Between Classic ASP and ASP.NET
Learn how to share session state between classic ASP and ASP.NET for easier conversion of applications using Microsoft .NET Framework classes and the serialization feature of the .NET Framework.   

Moving from Visual Basic to ASP.NET
With ASP.NET and Visual Studio .NET, creating Web applications and stand-alone Windows desktop applications are becoming near identical tasks. Explore how Visual Basic 6.0 developers can easily move their skills to the Web using ASP.NET.   

Converting ASP to ASP.NET
An examination of a typical data-driven ASP application, and a discussion of the essential steps involved in porting that ASP application to ASP.NET.   

Articles

.NET Migration Case Study: Using ASP .NET to Build the beta.visualstudio.net Web Site
This article covers the migration of the Web site, beta.visualstudio.net, from components written in Visual Basic 6.0 and ASP hosted on Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 to ASP .NET and the .NET Framework.   

ADO.NET for the ADO Programmer
An overview of the data access architecture available in ADO.NET, including questions most commonly asked by developers familiar with ADO.   

Comparing XML Support in .NET to Microsoft.XMLDOM
Examine the differences between the Microsoft.XMLDOM COM object available in previous versions of Microsoft Visual Studio, and the XML support in the .NET Framework.