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What would businesses benefit by migrating to higher versions in ASP.Net?

.NET Migration is the mechanism of porting various applications that are developed in ASP/VB to .NET framework. More and more businesses are migrating to higher version of ASP.Net in recent years, more so after the introduction of newer, feature-rich .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0 as well as 3.5 versions. Now the question is whether it is worthwhile to migrate to these higher versions of ASP.Net or continuing with the earlier versions is much more fruitful from the technical as well as financial point of view.

Though the .NET framework is designed to provide a wide range of flexible environment for migration as well as porting from ASP and VB to their more advanced versions, it encompasses a considerable extent of technological issues when it comes to successful and effective implementation. In fact, migration to the higher version opens up an entire new world of possibilities for various web-based applications.

Let us discuss some of the benefits that the businesses are likely to enjoy once they migrate to the higher ASP.Net versions.

Even though the primary objective is to maintain the ASP.Net sites that already exist, a business should basically be concerned about the fact that no further service packs for Visual Studio 2003 and .NET Framework 1.1 are available on and after 14th October, 2008, though extended support was available till 8th October 2013. It is this that has prompted the businesses to migrate to the higher versions. More so, they have been encouraged by the fact that an increasing number of third party vendors have stopped offering supporting components that would have helped running of the lower version like .NET Framework 1.1 or Visual Studio 2003 IDE. In fact, these two apps have ceased to exist and have been pushed to oblivion.

Again, once should not ignore the tremendous technological enhancements that the .NET framework has undergone over the last few years and this is reason enough as well for the companies to migrate.

The latest cutting-edge technology that the Visual Studio 2010 IDE has come up with is a fantastic platform that provides businesses to use various languages as well as powerful third party plugins, each of which would provide a new degree of programming productivity to the businesses.

Migrating to the higher versions will provide businesses the following benefits.

  • It will help businesses to fully integrate the .NET developers into the already-existing team of developers
  • It will also enable the businesses to enjoy professional services from a pool of experienced .NET consultants.
  • It will enable businesses to out-source as well as offshore services – an option that has always been a plus point of .NET application development.

After migrating the businesses can take the privilege of a wide range of technological superiority. Let us discuss them in short.

Superior Security and Performance

Businesses that have migrated have enjoyed much better security as well as performance

Easier and much superior Integration with external applications as well as tools

Advanced User Interface Elements

High Quality Coding

Migration to higher versions of results in much higher quality, pure C# coding, which can be designed to play the role of the best and the most wide accepted launching point for all the future business centric needs and requirements of the application.

In short, migration to higher version involves the following benefits:

  • New Functionality - XML Web Services, Web based forms
  • Fully incorporated Support for Debugging– Tracing
  • Cleaner Coding Model that is based on the Code Behind concept
  • Improved Performance as well as Scalability – compiled language support, improved caching
  • Simpler Configuration along with Faster Development
  • More Intelligent Web Controls

However, to ensure a successful and effective migration, certain processes need to be followed. Several process groups that the process of migration can be divided into the following phases:

  1. Evaluation Process
  2. Automatic Conversion
  3. Manual Changes
  4. Functional Equivalence
  5. Customized Evolution

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