Microsoft is looking for developers to provide feedback on the Alpha version of its ASP to ASP.NET Migration Assistant.
According to Microsoft's ASP.NET site, the ASP to ASP.NET Migration Assistant is designed to help convert ASP pages and applications to ASP.NET by automating some of the steps required for migration.
Some of the assistant's features include: changing the ASP file name and references to ASPX equivalent; inspect VBScript code and infer data types of variables; relocate Visual Basic code blocks to ASP.NET-compliant script or render tags.
The tool will only work with VBScript and cannot handle the conversion of complex rendering functions. Also, developers will be responsible for re-architecting any ASP security features to an ASP.NET security model.
Users of the migration assistant must be running the .NET Framework on either Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003.
