When will Classic ASP be desupported?

When will Classic ASP be desupported?

• deji101

  Even if the vendor (MS) supports ASP with additional fees, I really wonder if security patches will address ASP issues that far in the future. From what I understand, MS only supports 3 versions of a product (current one and 2 previous versions). Thanks for your input, we are converting all of our applications from ASP to ASP.NET, but it would be nice to let our management know fast this will happen. I was hoping to hear that within 2 years ASP would be desupported. That way there is a driver to get away from this legacy code.

  
  
  

• djshades2004

  I also believed the hype for a long time. ASP.NET after all is large and very powerful. What I have found however is that power is not always better. It's kind of like saying an ocean liner is better than a ski boat. Of course it is when you are going on a cruise around the world but not for water skiing. I have given .NET a fair go and it has its uses but in my opinion it simply is not a good substitute for classic ASP when it comes to web development. It's kind of like skiing with an ocean liner. I think Microsoft should keep Classic ASP with all the benefits a scripting language has to offer and introduce a way that Classic ASP can integrate with ASP.NET much like classic ASP could integrate with installed components on a web server. After much trial with ASP.NET I have started to seriously consider switching to PHP. Hopefully Microsoft will take head and no throw the baby out with the bath water.
  
  

• Speedbird186

  I agree and was going to post the same thing. There are alot of people who are converting from ASP to ASP.NET not only to move on to bigger and better things but to leave ASP at rest (for good reasons of course). Better start using ASP.NET, it is the future.

  I'd give it another 6-8 years - but thats just me.

  
  
  

• shmulik_segal

  I'd probably doubt it would occur that soon - consider VB6 which is 9 years old. You can still get support for it but you have to pay.

  So as to if ASP will get de-supported any time soon, I havent heard of any mentions of it not being supported but if your wanting to do new development I would definately choose ASP.NET over ASP Classic.

  
  

• Andy Ho

  I also have no doubt that many companies will still use ASP for many years to come. It just looks like MS is quietly de-supporting the development of ASP. I agree with what they are doing, and also understand the political pressures that they would incur if they came right out and told us that is was going to be de-supported at a near date in the future. We are obligated to have only vendor supported software, so I guess as long as we have notepad we'll be able to continue to develop ASP. Good riddance ASP.

  
  
  

• Toni Chaffin

  I'd very much doubt it would be in 2 years. I'd also think that ASP is not really a product as such but an underlying technology. I know security is a major concern and patches for critical issues would still be released. Probably the best course of action is to have a plan for migrating applications to .NET technology if the support issue is of concern.

  I think you'll find ASP Classic will be in use for a good number of years to come.

  
  

• ps1terry

  I would say that was probably a fair assumption of what will probably happen.

  I would say that most new development is ASP.NET, I cant see many people intentionally choosing ASP Classic as a new development platform but support for technology whether free or paid will probably go on for a long while yet.

  Its a shame some hold back onto old technologies for so long when newer much better technologies become available - MS have to provide some degree of support for this scenario and what eventually happens is that it becomes less and less and you have to pay for it, but like most things - you show me the money, I'll look at your issue.

  
  
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