[AccessD] Access Front-End via Web Enabled

I can answer that, the difference between ASP.Net and ASP is like the
difference between VBScript and VB.Net.  I've used all 4, though I tend
to use VB 6 and ASP normally.  ASP.Net uses internal code to produce
effects that are not native to a web application.  For example, in
ASP.Net, you get events that the web server really isn't aware of.  

Old ASP has a few objects, the biggies being Server (used to do things
with the server, such as creating an object), Response (object used to
send data back to the web user) and Request (object used to see what the
web user is sending).  So for an ASP application to retrieve data from a
database based on criteria in a combobox, the asp page uses HTML to
'submit' the combobox data, which is read through the 'request' object,
then the 'server' object is used to read the database and retrieve the
necessary data, and the 'response' object is used to return the data as
a web page.

With ASP.Net, you can have an OnClick (not sure if that's the right
event, don't use ASP.Net on a regular basis) that 'appears' to do all
the work just like an Access form does it, but it is really doing a lot
of the work for you internally using a combination of client side and
server side scripting.

Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte
Foust
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 10:16 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access Front-End via Web Enabled

I haven't worked with it at all in several years because virtually all
our development is WinForms using VB.Net.  I never worked with ASP, so I
don't know how different ASP.Net is.  There are lots of books on it,
which should help.  The biggie is getting used to the .Net object model
where EVERYTHING is an object and there are multiple ways to do
something, some of them more right than others.

Charlotte Foust 


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