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Yes,
you may run ASP pages on a server that runs ASP.NET.
Microsoft Active Server Pages
(ASP) is a server-side scripting environment that you can
use to create and run dynamic, interactive Web server applications.
With ASP, you can combine HTML pages, script commands, and COM
components to create interactive web pages or powerful web-based
applications, which are easy to develop and modify.
ASP.NET is a programming framework built on the common language
runtime that can be used on a server to build powerful web applications.
Both ASP and ASP.NET applications can run side by side on a server
without adversely affecting each other. This is primarily due to
the fact that separate file extensions (.asp versus .aspx) and
separate configuration models (metabase/registry versus XML-based
configuration files) are used between the two technologies. The
two systems have totally separate processing engines.
It
is possible to have part of one application running ASP and another
part of the same application running ASP.NET. This is very beneficial
if you need to move a large, rapidly changing site to ASP.NET one
piece at a time. Additionally, if you are going to move to ASP.NET,
you may want to use this compatibility to make as many architectural
and design improvements as you can. For these types of situations,
coexistence using a phased-in approach is an absolute must.
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