.Net menu blues

aspx to asp

[webtress]

Just finished reading another post Making the transition from Classic ASP to .NET, My problem is opposite, the new pages will be .asp the current pages are .aspx. The menu on the old pages is written for .net using ComponentArt. I really only have one question. Will it be possible to use the menu with the .asp pages?

[sgietz]

Just out of curiosity, why go from .NET to classic ASP?

[webtress]

This is what the client wants. But his current menu systems does not seem to be compatible.

[sgietz]

I'm pretty sure that you can't use any .NET controls with ASP.

[TheNige]

I feel sorry for you. You'll have to find a classic ASP component (probably DLL or Custom Jscript) that can handle the menu functions similar to the ComponentArt ones.

I'd get a new client.

[aleksl]

As far as I know ComponentArt menus are all javascript. I don't see a reason why you shouldn't be able to run them in a classic ASP, or any other server-side technology.

aside from the facts that javascript navigation is not SE-friendly, and its a load of code to be sent to visitor' browsers

[Devastated]

as far as i can discern componentart menu is an asp.net component therefor unless you replciate this in asp it won't work on a web server unless you have the .net engine installed and running

[edited by: encyclo at 3:17 pm (utc) on Mar. 15, 2007]
[edit reason] no URLs please, see TOS [webmasterworld.com] [/edit]

[aleksl]

my bad.

Devastated, you are correct. I was looking at the source it produces, and at includes, and it was a boatload of Javascript. Just checking again, indeed there's a .NET ComponentArt component on the back-end, which means you can't run it on classic asp...unless you have .NET installed on the box and it is compiled as COM DLL