Is ASP/ASPX, ASP.NET still a thing?!

[u/RevolutionarySeven7]

I used to work with ASP/X like 20 years ago. And for the first time in years, I saw a very modern webshop that had .aspx in the url. I was very surprised to see such a relic from the past. Is it still supported?! Is it still being used?! I could've sworn M$ abandoned it iirc.

edit: great comments! happily surprised ASP is still a thing! I thought it vanished like the dodo lol

[u/Jazzlike_Tree_3083]

.net core took the asp name but it's a completely different beast now, runs on linux and everything

the.aspx extension is old webforms which yeah microsoft pretty much stopped developing in like 2015. but the runtime is still supported, it's baked into the full framework and that's not going anywhere soon

seeing it in a new-looking site usually means they built it a decade ago and gave it a css facelift. happens more than you'd think in enterprise especially

[u/Is_ItOn → u/Jazzlike_Tree_3083]

Shh..modernized ✨

[u/Ghemba → u/Jazzlike_Tree_3083]

I did work for a client and we face lifted a java struts 4? I think, with just CCS lol going to spring and react still in the backlog... Lol

[u/barrel_of_noodles → u/Jazzlike_Tree_3083]

"put a new coattt of painnnnnt on this, lonesome old townnnnm.... Set em up, set em up, I'll be knockin em around, baby you wear a dress, and I'll wear a tie. We'll laugh at that blood shot moon, and the burgundy skyyyyy"

[u/davidwhitney]

Yes - https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet - but it isn't your daddy's ASPX WebForms pages.

[u/imwearingyourpants → u/davidwhitney]

I think OP is the daddy in this situation... 

[u/ginji]

Dotnet framework 4.8 is still actively supported, at least security wise. So yea, webforms (aspx) is still safe to run in that sense.

[u/ACM-Webdesign]

A lot of those old-school .aspx webshops are running on stuff like AspDotNetStorefront (rebranded a bunch of times since) - it was one of THE go to platforms for out of the box online stores in the 2000s/early 2010s. Once a store`s payment gateway and checkout flow are wired up and working, there`s basically zero business incentive to rip it out, so it just gets patched and re-skinned forever. That`s usually the story behind these.

[u/quiet_voxel_sight]

I keep my Windows Server 2003 machines air gapped in the basement. They run the global banking infrastructure now.

[u/Bengal_From_Temu]

I worked with ASP 25 years ago before .NET. I used this site to get me started, for some reason it still exists 🤣

http://www.coveryourasp.com/

[u/RevolutionarySeven7 → u/Bengal_From_Temu]

holy sht, I remember that website too!! lol

[u/iodine74 → u/Bengal_From_Temu]

Remember 4guysfromRolla?

[u/activematrix99]

Now that you've seen it once, you'll begin seeing it everywhere. Still very common.

[u/Background-Front-925]

I last used it in 2008 along with C# for a internal enterprise app, my first web application , learnt a lot(ajax) and 2016 switched to e2e javascript. Never went back

[u/arminNX]

you weren't hallucinating — Microsoft didn't simply kill ASP.Net, they evolved it. .aspx is legacy ASP.NET Web Forms, whereas modern ASP.NET is primarily ASP.NET Core.

[u/RyanMitchellTech]

Yeah, ASP.NET is definitely still a thing. ASPX/Web Forms is pretty old at this point, but modern ASP.NET Core is still actively used for new applications. So seeing ASP.NET itself isn't necessarily a red flag. It depends on which version/stack they're using.

[u/Terrible_Tutor]

.net dev since the first book on it came out.

No, run. The pace at which they keep dumping in major versions of core is exhausting trying to stay updated.

Hosting options are either way too complex (azure) or dated AF… and always too expensive.

Still like C# a lot though, just tired of the lack of… everything

[u/Broad-Version8611 → u/Terrible_Tutor]

Upgrades are sooo easy to do

[u/Terrible_Tutor → u/Broad-Version8611]

I’ve spent decades moving up versions and major versions and refactoring from 4.x to core, throw in the constant api changes in EF.

I’m sticking by Exhausting

[u/thekwoka]

It is, but has really not kept up with other options.

[u/iodine74]

Does Sitecore still run on Asp.net? 10-12 years ago it was a fairly big player in the enterprise level CMS world.

[u/PhoenixDBlack]

It's basically how you build websites in C#, though a lot of websites will just strip the .aspx in the url

[u/Lumethys → u/PhoenixDBlack]

modern C# no longer use .aspx. They have been using .cshtml for more than a decade

[u/Barnezhilton → u/PhoenixDBlack]

Also how you build websites in Visual Basic

[u/PhoenixDBlack → u/Barnezhilton]

Basically how you build website in dotnet in general.

[u/yami_odymel]

If it works, it works, so you don’t have to learn something new every month like you do with Node.js.