PHP or ASP .NET - Which is Preferable?

“Every technology comes with some motive or vision that either creates or demolishes the future of the technology depending upon its real time execution! PHP and ASP .NET are two major web domain specific technologies of the industry, having some common and little uniqueness within them, which have made them to sustain in the industry till date. They have different objectives and visions from their inception and they stick to that to provide their customer base the best in the industry web solutions. When you are asked to choose one which is better for you; you need to be cautious enough because both have their advantages with respect to the requirements of the users; and they both fail to meet the expectations of the client in some specific cases; because they are not developed keeping those scenarios as a priority. So, let’s check out when and where PHP is preferable and when ASP .NET.”

PHP for low cost web development projects: The most important distinguishing feature about PHP and ASP .NET is the cost effectiveness. PHP is an open source technology where as ASP .NET is a proprietary product from Microsoft. Hence the software cost of PHP is too less than that of ASP .NET. In fact, due to its open source nature, PHP developers can get adequate rooms to modify the source code of the language as per their requirements and project demand. Again, the initial cost of PHP installation is negligible as compared to ASP.NET. Hence it is often preferred by small website development projects having limited budget for the development process. Again, the wages of PHP developers are much less as compared to ASP .NET developers due to its easy to learn approach that triggers fresher to kick start their career with PHP at very economic wages. Moreover, due to the open source nature of PHP, the industry is flooded with large numbers of open source PHP modules and plug-ins that help in decreasing the development time significantly. Considering all above situations it is clear that the development cost of any PHP application is less as compared to ASP .NET.

ASP .NET for large scale web applications: Though, ASP .NET is not preferred for low budget or static web projects, but it is having a tremendous demand for large scale web applications that need high performance, speed and better user experience. ASP .NET can handle any size of data driven web application in a hassle free manner without compromising on the quality of the application. The highly expert teams of Microsoft who have built this framework are extremely cautious for the optimization and high efficiency of this framework. The inbuilt libraries, methods and controls are extremely reliable and stable enough to deal with any type of complex situation. On the contrary, PHP as a language can’t afford such amenities for its developers.

Highly customizable and scalable application can be well handled with ASP .NET MVC: Due to the core MVC Architecture i.e., model view controller scheme, ASP .NET enables the ASP .NET developers to approach their programming style in an efficient and systematic manner. It keeps the view part of the application isolated from the model section by an intermediate controller. As a result, different components of the application are loosely coupled with each other and don’t interrupt any other’s functionality at all. This makes the application more scalable and customizable in order to provide enhanced user experience. Moreover, this encourages experienced ASP .NET developers to follow an Agile approach of web development process for utmost productivity from the application which is seriously restricted with PHP.

Programming effort can be decreased drastically with the integration of third party open source PHP modules and plug-ins: Undoubtedly programming becomes efficient within the ASP .NET IDE, but the coding effort of a PHP developer can be decreased tremendously due to availability of readymade modules and plug-ins to be integrated with any PHP web application. There are millions of open source PHP modules and plug-ins available in the industry that can be well integrated into PHP application with a little tweak by the developer. On the other hand, Microsoft strictly prohibits the integration of any unreliable third party modules or plug-ins into an ASP .NET application.

Quick web development can be achieved with the ASP .NET framework: Though, Microsoft never encourages relying on any third party modules and plug-ins but it offers more than that with its inbuilt mesmerizing features. ASP .NET is commonly known as "drag and drop" technology. That means it provides many web contents like form components that can be easily implemented into the application without any hassle. In fact, it enables the developer to take the advantage of its inbuilt validation methods to make the process much easier. As a framework, it also provides enough inbuilt packages, libraries and controls to craft highly optimized and efficient web applications on the fly.

High performance and reliable end product is must with ASP .NET: Since ASP .NET has inbuilt libraries containing large number of commonly used methods and classes, it makes the web development process much faster than that of PHP. To add this, those methods and libraries are developed by the expert team of Microsoft who are highly motivated in writing extremely optimized and stable codes for those components. During the development process when the ASP .NET developer calls those methods or classes, they needn’t to bother about the reliability and efficiency of those inbuilt stuffs. As a result, the end product developed with those components is dam reliable and is highly optimized.

Both support all modern amenities but in a different manner: Modern amenities like integration of JQuery, HTML5, CSS3 and other interactive plug-ins can be integrated with both PHP and ASP .NET applications but in different approaches. PHP enables PHP developers to integrate these amenities manually into their application where as ASP .NET provides many tools, supports and inbuilt packages to take the advantages of these amenities. Moreover ASP .NET also provides scope for crafting highly advanced and contemporary web applications with the support from its inbuilt emulators for different platforms like Android, Windows and iOS. As a result, an ASP .NET web developer can create smart apps for multiple platforms from within the ASP.NET environment.

Finally, it’s not fair to compare a language with a framework! As discussed above, we clearly visualize that ASP .NET outperforms PHP in most of the circumstances and it is obvious as well; because we were trying to compare an industry leading web framework with a web domain specific language. If you are looking for expert PHP development services and are interested to outsource your software development part, then look no further. Mindfire Solutions has been consistently developing industry specific applications for more than a decade now.

Significance of ASP.NET vNext

“Change is the only truth of nature and it holds good to every material may it be tangible or intangible! Microsoft’s ASP .NET vNext recently made its debut to the IT industry with lots of precarious debates; but turned out as a gem in the industry in a magical way. How? Let’s check it out!”

It’s now Open Source: Industry has an orthodox psychology about Microsoft that it never ships anything free of cost; with ASP .NET vNext, Microsoft proved that it can offer a fully loaded web framework for the industry without any premium. Previous versions of ASP .NET were proprietary where as ASP .NET vNext is absolutely Open Source and it runs under the .NET foundation for the development and enhancement of this Open Source technology. As a result, anyone can contribute to the platform and hence improving the productivity of the framework with the support of the Open Source ASP .NET vNext community.

NextGen ready smart sites with Cloud support: Cloud technology has been the most gossiped topics of the industry since its inception due to its supreme feature and usability. Though, the industry is not yet absolutely ready to adopt cloud technology in every web solution due to many feasibility constraints; still there is a way that simply runs towards the cloud and definitely it will be well achieved in future. Understanding the tremendous potential of cloud, Microsoft has not made any mistake by making its vNext an absolute cloud ready. It encourages ASP .NET developers to integrate cloud service to their web application to make it future ready and deploy the application for the smart browsers of smart devices in the industry. With cloud, the developer will get adequate scope to store his user’s data over a virtually unlimited storage device in terms of cloud service. On the contrary, this will boost the confidence of users to rely over cloud storage services like Google Drive, Amazon cloud and Apple cloud service along with Microsoft’s Azure cloud storage service.

Its core development process is Agile: Gone are the days, when any software application was being developed in an ample size and then the testers jump to test the application before it went to the live stage. Now, there are concurrent processes following the agile methodology to improve the productivity of any application development. There are always small or bit changes happen in an application and it immediately goes to the production stage, making the users benefited with the updated features of the application. With ASP .NET vNext Microsoft is unmistakably encouraging the agile methodology by releasing updates and bug fixes in a frequent manner so as to make it up-to-date with the industry. In fact, with agile methodology, it tries to live up to the expectations and demands of the industry by continuous effort from its Open Source community. The best part is that it makes the changes over the cloud and enables the community to adopt the changes without any lag.

NuGet Packages: Previously ASP .NET framework used to come as a full package to the developer without any consideration about the needs and requirements of the ASP .NET developer. Suppose you, a web developer needs only two packages or libraries of ASP .NET then you didn’t have the option to choose and keep only those two packages; instead you have to install all the libraries to your system. Microsoft realized that this is an inefficient way of resource handling and it directly contradicts with its newly developed ideology i.e., Agile development process. Now with ASP .NET vNext, it passes the control to the .NET developer to choose and assemble whatever permutation or combination of libraries or namespaces that may required by the application development process. It also ensures that the developer can add or remove any package in between the development process in a hassle free manner. For example, there is a system.Web node having a large number of namespaces like Microsoft.Runtime.Hosting, System.Configuration, System.Web.Caching, System.Web.Mail, System.Web.Routing and System.Web.Security etc. Now the developer can take any number of required namespaces from this assemble node. It makes the process to move away from monolithic approach and removing the unnecessary dependencies from the framework assemblies. In a nutshell, NuGet package manager helps in automatically updating the reference node in your vNext platform for efficient resource handling.

Cross platform development with vNext! This time ASP .NET vNext is not limited to windows environment. Rather, it can be run with non-Windows platforms like OS X and Linux so that you can deploy vNext projects without any Visual Studio or Windows environment. Again, it also provides support for mono, which is an unofficial cross platform CLR for ASP .NET vNext. Mono is a platform that allows developers in creating cross platform applications without much hassle. Again, Microsoft has included KRE in mono to make the application run under different platforms. KRE is a run-time environment that helps in the compilation and makes the application cross platform compatible. You can also host your application without any need of IIS by self hosting with vNext platform.

Roslyn Compiler is there: Now, there is a next generation compiler to compile your vNext ASP .NET application in a dynamic manner i.e., with Roslyn compiler platform that enables your ASP .NET application to be deployed and compiled in no time and makes you feel as if inside an interpreted platform like PHP. Here the developer can visualize the immediate changes over the browser with a refresh in no time. This eliminates the annoying experience of the developer to wait for the repetitive time consuming deployment process.

Reliable Pipelining solution: With ASP .NET vNext, Microsoft has not left any stone unturned to boost the performance of the application. Previously ASP .NET used to pass requests that are being handled by event handlers, i.e., HTTPHandler to perform the requested action. It was then needs to be passed through a series of components upon which the developer had no control. This time Microsoft realized that more optimal solution can be achieved with composible pipeline technology. Now the developer can explicitly specify the only components that are going to be used in the pipeline and hence making the process more efficient and optimized than before. UseService() can help for the customized request call to the pipeline as a result, it enables the developer to customize the pipeline for different hosts.

Support- simply Microsoft standard! Undoubtedly, when you are choosing ASP .NET vNext, you are going the get the support that is of Microsoft standard and it will never compromise on the quality of service for which it has been ruling the industry for more than two decades now.

Mindfire Solutions has a rich experience in developing ASP.NET based large-scale web applications and high-performance of ASP.NET websites. Our skilled ASP.NET Team is Microsoft MCTS certified or MVC Certifified and are abreast with the latest developments in this area. If you want to avail the expert ASP.NET services of our team, then do send in your queries to sales at Mindfire Solutions dot com.

Why do Businesses look to hire Certified ASP.Net developers?

"Business is nothing but to generate profit and if it is unable; then this is nothing but an experiment! So every business person looks for profit and it is quite obvious too. Again, business is tightly coupled with risk factors and hence it should be carefully observed by the concerned person to avoid any financial damage. The core policy of business transaction holds good for IT industry as well but in a sophisticated manner. Here in IT industry, we do business in the form of products and services; but the theme is same i.e. sell your Intellectual property. IT products or services are nothing rather an idea that triggers increasing revenue and hence profit. Those concepts are built in different technologies and ASP .Net is one such piece. ASP .Net is the flagship product from IT giant Microsoft and is serving the industry for many years now with the same essence as it was before. Its popularity is simply amazing and hence there is a tremendous demand for ASP .Net developers and projects in the industry. But, does your business hiring the real gems or virtual one? You can avoid this confusion by hiring Certified ASP .Net developer. Let's see how and why.."

ASP .Net Certification will help one learning the core things along with some real time experience: When one is projected for a certification course; he supposed to learn the core stuffs undoubtedly. The thing is that, is it enough? Can a person with core knowledge on any language is really efficient? Did he study the things that your business really needs? And is it a good idea to study everything about a huge language like ASP .Net, while your business is limited to just about one tenth of the entire stuff? This is really interesting. So, through certification a person get transformed into an ASP .Net professional having all REQUIRED knowledge along with real time project exposure. Real time project exposure will definitely help him in understanding different associated stuffs like set-up things, understanding of the documentation and accordingly starting work on an IDE etc. Again, during the certification, the person may be given chance to learn any ASP .Net framework like Visual Studio express and this is really helpful for the professional.

Certification somehow relates to the skill of the professional: ASP .Net certification not only helps you in gaining knowledge on different controls, classes, OOP concept etc but also it sharpens your skill for efficient programming. Programming is itself a skill; but it differs from person to person and hence difference in quality. A module can be written in many ways, but our business needs the better one if the best is not possible. So, it can be achieved only by a skilled professional who has better analytical skill and he must be able to implement the same in the workflow. For the same, he should have some real time experience during the certification and it is extremely helpful for any business. Most importantly, the professional should have some knowledge on the field on which your business will operate. Suppose your business is related to banking domain, then you must hire a certified developer having prior knowledge on banking sector or at least somehow related to that domain. His domain knowledge will help your business in getting new success wing in coming period.

ASP .Net Certification is really great if you are a fresher: Freshers are crazy about ASP .Net! They might have good knowledge and logical skill but if it can't be used efficiently; then it's not good for the business neither for them. While hiring a fresher, we must understand the potential risks associated and accordingly take decision. It is always preferred to hire a Certified ASP .Net developer instead of a non certified fresher. Many corporate like to provide in-depth training to fresher to make them more efficient and skilled. The worst part is the stress management; usually, fresher couldn't take more stress as an experienced professional and the so is possible only by proper training and certification programme so that, at the end of the process, you will get really good professionals for your ambitious business. They will definitely help your project done in a systematic manner without compromising on the quality and reliability.

A Certified ASP .Net developer can be turned out as a gem for your business: While hiring good ASP .Net developers for your business make sure that you are capturing the excellent ones not the bad ones. For safe side, you should chose only certified ASP .Net developers or experienced professionals with good domain knowledge. If you are able to get certified developers for your business, then you will definitely get better result. It will definitely improve your productivity and hence profit, which is the chief aim of your business. One precaution, make sure to hire higher level certified developers so that they can be turned out as the greatest gem for your business.

Productivity and Certification are just like two sides of a coin: Since Certification programme is meant for providing better quality human resource to the industry, so we must understand its importance. A certified ASP .Net developer is usually having better knowledge on the core concepts of ASP .Net like Object oriented programming, use of proper packets, efficient use of classes, knowledge on the IDE and its features, good command over the different controls of ASP .net etc. So, if one fulfils all these criteria, then he can definitely be turned out as a gem for your business and give better mileage to your productivity.

At the end of the day, it’s all about quality: A business may gain some virtual profit from initial pull from the promotions and all; but it can't be successful if it is not of better quality. So, quality is the success pillar for any business and so the case for IT products or services as well. Though certification can assure you for a quality resource but this is not the only parameter for our purpose. An experienced non certified developer can also be turned out as a precious asset for your business.

At Mindfire Solutions, we have 100+ senior dot net experts to take care of your development requirements. We have a pool of senior .net developers to choose from. If you have any new enterprise application idea or an existing web application that needs a new life, please write to us and we will revert back within one business day.

What role does frameworks play in ASP.Net

ASP .Net- An awesome framework from Microsoft: Microsoft is a global IT leader in the industry with different products from its house. Asp .net is one of these flagship products from Microsoft to rule the web industry by providing efficient web application development platform to the asp .net developers. Industry has seen a stupendous market potential of the web applications in past few years and it has been continuing till date. In order to provide better services to the web developers in developing enterprise standard web applications Microsoft is giving maximum effort for its asp .net framework. Let us discuss some of the important features that help the asp .net developer for quick web development.

Frameworks matters a lot in quick web development: A framework is a tool which is having lots of inbuilt functions, classes and modules that can help the web developer for quick web development process. ASP .Net is having a bulk of commonly used modules and libraries to help the developer in efficient web development. The best part is it takes care about the efficiency and productivity of the application. Moreover, its name is associated with Microsoft brand name; so, we don’t need to worry about its reliability at any point of time.

ASP .Net provides flexibility with plugins: ASP .Net is tested and trusted by the industry since its inception. Hence there is huge volume of ASP .Net developers in the industry and they used to help other ASP .Net web developers through different modules and plugins developed by them and sharing it for the public. So, a new ASP .Net developer can use those plugins from web to develop quick websites with efficiency and accuracy. This gives the web developer a flexible environment to integrate trusted plugins for their application.

ASP .Net is always up-to-date with the effort from efficient Microsoft Team: Well, there is continuous effort from the ASP .Net framework developer team of Microsoft to make it even more powerful with time. With every latest version, it improves its efficiency to a next level so that it can remain at the top of the list in the industry. So, we can expect higher efficiency and productivity from this framework in future.

ASP .Net provides all modern amenities under its hood: ASP .Net developers can take the advantage of all modern technologies from inside the framework itself. The framework is well prepared to integrate with all future ready technologies like AJAX, HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery etc. So, ASP .Net developer can build industry standard web applications for future devices like smart phones and tablets. Most importantly, web developers can develop responsive web applications for different size of screens of the smart devices starting from 2 inches to 10 inches. It will give same user experience in all devices irrespective of screen size, resolution and hardware specification. It also enables the ASP .Net web developers to build enterprise standard web applications using cloud computing technology.

Support at its par: Well, we don’t need to speak more for the support that Microsoft provides for its esteemed customers. But, again there is a huge ASP .Net developer’s community in the industry which can help you 24x7 supports online. Moreover, there are many online blogs, community where you can get your issue fixed at any point of time.

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E-Commerce application development with ASP.Net

ASP .Net the flagship web framework from Microsoft: Microsoft is the IT giant of the industry. It had introduced graphical user interface to the industry through its most popular product Windows Operating system. It ruled the industry for more than decades and still counting. In this phase of time, industry realized the importance of websites and its future potential. Hence many new web domain specific technologies get born like PHP, ASP and JSP etc. ASP .Net is a framework to develop ASP applications over it. Well, no need to mention that ASP .Net is from Microsoft and hence no question about its efficiency and productivity. AS a web framework, ASP .Net has all the amenities that a web developer or ASP .Net developer could dream of. Hence there is a stupendous market potential of ASP .Net in the industry and it is going up with every passing day.

E-Commerce application needs high degree of security: Well, if you are looking for an e-commerce web application development, you can choose ASP .Net for your ambitious project. You will get all amenities from the ASP .Net developers without compromising on the performance and effectiveness. Anyway, when you are thinking of developing a e commerce application, the first thing is the security measures; because your application supposed to deal with various online transactions that deals with financial banking transactions like net banking or credit card transactions. So you must be aware of the security issues and threats associated with your user’s data. For the same, ASP .Net provides sufficient scope in building highly secure environment with 128 bit encryption technology.

Smart phone app for your e-commerce application can enhance your productivity: You can increase the radius of your business by reaching to a larger volume of area by your business app. For the same, you have to develop e-commerce app for your business for different platforms like android, iOS etc. Well, ASP .Net developers can help you in the same by making your web app for these platforms. Moreover, they can develop apps for these platforms from within the platform itself. There are simulators available in the ASP .Net platform that can help the web developers in building cross platform web apps for your business.

Make your e-commerce site future ready: With multiple platforms, thousands of hardware devices, your application may be crunched from both sides. So, you have to take the help of modern features, technologies and tools while developing your business application to make it fit for the future demands. For the same, .Net developers can integrate HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery to build responsive web applications that can fit to any platform and any screen sizes.

Don’t bother much about support; focus more on your business: Well, if you are choosing ASP .Net for your e-commerce application, you need not to bother for the support from the manufacturer as it’s from the house of Microsoft. Microsoft will never take a chance for the reputation in the industry which it has build over a long period. So you can trust over it and pay more attention for the growth of your business.

You can get in touch with a custom .NET development company who can help you develop web apps that are stable, scalable and secure.

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Top reasons to choose ASP.Net for custom web development

Branding from Microsoft! No need to say about Microsoft; the name itself conveys a lots of things to the IT industry. The word Microsoft is enough to make the industry understand the quality of service it provides. Moreover when we are dealing with a flagship product like ASP .Net, we need not to think much about the quality of the product. Microsoft is renowned for its quality products in the industry. It may be the old age windows operating system or the new era web domain technology i.e., ASP .Net; there is always a fragrance of quality in its products.

ASP .Net for quick web development: Any framework is designed to make the development process not only efficient but also effortless. The same condition applies with ASP .Net as well. As a web framework, it has all the features that a web developer may need the development process. An ASP .Net developer can get all types of benefits and futuristic features from within the platform that will definitely help him in developing quick web applications that are not only efficient but also effective and enterprise standard. Moreover the development process becomes flawless and faster with different functions of the framework. It also provides enough scope to integrate modern web components into the web application without much hassle. This makes the web development process not only easier but also funnier.

All modern amenities within the framework: As an efficient framework that too from the house of Microsoft we can expect exceptional quality of features in the framework. To sustain in the market we must respect the demand of the industry and Microsoft never makes any mistake in understanding the need of the industry rather the highly efficient and expert team of Microsoft are having the ability to forecast the future demand of the industry. As a result, all the products of Microsoft are usually future ready and so the case of ASP .Net as well. An ASP .Net developer gets enough scope to develop futuristic web applications from within the platform. It enables the web developers in integrating different modern web features into the website without much trouble.

You can develop smart apps using ASP .Net: We can’t ignore the importance of smart phones and smart operating systems in the industry. There is a tremendous market potential for smart operating systems in coming future and hence we must develop apps for these smart phones to reach at more number of users in an efficient manner. This time Microsoft has not left any stone unturned. The ASP .Net framework provides sufficient scope to different smart app developers like Android developer and windows developers etc in building enterprise standard smart apps like web apps, native apps and hybrid apps. Moreover it provides simulators to notice your app right from the platform itself and modify the code accordingly so that you can give better user experience.

No Worry for support: Above all Microsoft provides the best in class support for its users. As a .Net developer you will get privileged support from Microsoft that will definitely tempt you for developing your next project with Microsoft.

You can get in touch with a custom .NET development company who can help you develop web apps that are stable, scalable and secure.

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Tools to migrate ASP applications to ASP.Net

ASP is the classic technology to design web applications. Most of the web applications were built in ASP before a decade; but when Microsoft released its .Net framework ASP .Net, the industry gave it an overwhelming response due to its incredible features. It made the web development process much easier and efficient than before. It introduced the backend programming in ASP .Net. In ASP, the applications were developed in a Scripting language but with ASP .Net, the developer has the options to choose from different languages like C#, J#, Visual basic, .Net etc.

Why migrate to ASP .Net? Simply I can say it will raise the standard of your web application. It will increase the stability and reliability of your application to a next level. Moreover, your application will be more scalable than before with ASP .Net. As a result, your application will gain a performance boosting from the framework. It also helps in avoiding the cross-browser compatibility issue for your application. The ASP .Net developer will have more control over the server side programming; because, ASP .Net provides a platform to isolate the server side programming from that of client side. It also helps in optimizing your application with proper use of cache memory.

ASP2ASPX tool: This is from Netcoole software solutions. It helps in migrating from ASP application to ASPX in a very less span of time. It converts the VBScript to C# or VB .Net as per the requirement of the web developer. It provides the support for code behind functions. It has various migration options like ASP built-in object to ASP .Net, ADO DB to nceADO .Net, File access system to nceScripting namespace etc. Moreover, it has the capability to analyse different data types of ASP and convert them to corresponding data type of .Net. It can generate the migration report after successful migration of the application or program.

ASP to ASP .Net migration assistance: It is yet another migration tool for ASP applications to ASP .Net platform. The best part is that it can be run from within the Visual Studio platform itself. With this tool, it converts all the .asp pages to .aspx page with all precautions. Moreover, it corrects all the references of the original file to the new file during migration. The references may be like href, including files, directives and form attribute etc. It also analyses all the variables and data types of ASP and converts them to ASP .Net data types. This tool performs just like the ASP2ASPX tool in many prospective.

Is it wise to rely on the migration tools? This is the biggest challenge while dealing with any migration tool. Well, you can’t rely on just a tool like ASP2ASPX or ASP to ASP >net migration assistance tool for all your requirements. A tool can convert the codes but it can’t understand your logic behind; so you must take care of the same while migrating an application. I would suggest you to keep a backup of the original file before you try for a migration; so that if any failure occurs you can roll back.

You can get in touch with a custom .NET development company who can help you develop web apps that are stable, scalable and secure.

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