I will learn thanks,
Bobby

If you ever play with the later versions of ASP,net you’ll be shocked. Its mostly drag’n'drop and really easy to add logic. The only problem is like with front page, it adds loads of crap html. However if you learn enough of the language you can program everything yourself.

@saboo I think your referring to Steves comment, who mentions asp.net is preferred for large and complex sites. I suppose it is preffered by most organisations as Microsoft will support them, although this won’t come cheap. However if your wanting to create a commercial product and are investing millions into it, its good to have the peace of mind that your code will be supported within a certain time frame.

@Kev – Yeah I’ve heard a lot of good things about ruby on rails in terms of developing sites quickly it seems to have poor scalibility though – not sure if its still true. Twitter is a site built on rails and I remember hearing they wanted to completely start from scratch using a new language.

@Ben – PHP is something I need to learn more of too. The developers I know are able to do some amazing things in PHP but ultimately these can be done much quicker in ASP.net. However PHP prgrommers tend to be a lot more generous making a lot more of their work freely available.

On the negative side of ASP.net, I always find that your battling windows security etc.. some of the things you really want to do in ASP.net just aren’t possible, URL rewriting (SEO friendly urls) in ASP.net was really difficult until recently.

I’m trying not to take sides but if I had to use a language it would be between ASP.net and PHP. My decision would be based on a number of factors like mentioned in the post above.

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In my opinion, PHP is better than ASP.NET and JSP because it is free, runs on Linux, Unix, and Windows, and it is supported my millions of people. Who said that PHP can’t do somethings that ASP.NET can? This is just someone’s thinking. PHP can do ANYTHING that ASP.NEY and JSP can do, plus a lot more. Like I said, PHP is supported by millions of people while ASP.NET is supported by only thousands Mircosoft people.

Usually, ASP.NET developers will say that ASP.NET is better and PHP developers will say that PHP is better.

“You cannot make large and complex sites with PHP.” – This statement is wrong. Yahoo and Facebook are the two largest PHP sites in the world. Plus, millions of other popular sites are written in PHP (for example: thepiratebay.org and btjunkie.org – two of the largest and popular bit torrent sites). You can make ANY kind of website with PHP (for example: social networks, video sharing, search engine, forums, etc).
PHP has A LOT more functions and features than ASP.NET.

I am not saying that ASP.NET sucks. It is the second popular language for web development (PHP being the first). In fact, I am learning ASP.NET these days. I really like its Visual Web Developer which speeds up your work.

Inclusion, I would like to say that BOTH languages are awesome and you can make any kind of website with them.

I would definately agree with you on that, however I hear Facebook uses PHP and mySQL so it is possible to create very intensive and complex sites.

My preference is ASP.net due to how easy it is to use, generally most developers would say that its much quicker to create web apps in ASP.net.

Nice article. Though PHP is open source, ASP.NET has always proved best favorite for Large and complex applications along with SQL server.