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title: "What is the difference between asp and asp.net?"  
description: "What is the difference between asp and asp.net?"  
author: "Vijay Shukla"  
published: 2012-12-15  
updated: 2020-09-21  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/1605/what-is-the-difference-between-asp-and-asp-dot-net  
category: "asp.net"  
tags: ["asp.net"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# What is the difference between asp and asp.net?

Classical ASP had no mechanism of running itself on non- Microsoft technology platforms like the 'The Apache Web Server'\
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But, ASP.NET\
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ASP.NET could be run on non-Microsoft Platforms also. Cassini is a sample Web server produced by Microsoft which, among other projects, has been used to host ASP.NET with Apache.\
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**Multi Language Support in WebPage**\
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In ASP only two languages were available for scripting VBScript and Jscript/Javascript. But in ASP.NET We are no longer constrained to the two scripting languages available in traditional ASP: Any fully compliant .NET language can now be used with ASP.NET, including C# and VB.NET.\
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Note :- (C# and VB.Net are both server Side languages.)**

## Answers

### Answer by Vijay Shukla

Classical ASP had no mechanism of running itself on non- Microsoft technology platforms like the 'The Apache Web Server'\
\
But, ASP.NET\
\
ASP.NET could be run on non-Microsoft Platforms also. Cassini is a sample Web server produced by Microsoft which, among other projects, has been used to host ASP.NET with Apache.\
\
**Multi Language Support in WebPage**\
\
In ASP only two languages were available for scripting VBScript and Jscript/Javascript. But in ASP.NET We are no longer constrained to the two scripting languages available in traditional ASP: Any fully compliant .NET language can now be used with ASP.NET, including C# and VB.NET.\
**\
Note :- (C# and VB.Net are both server Side languages.)**


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