Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Fri Dec 7 18:50:23 CST 2007
There is a much better editor than notebook that you can download and use. See: http://www.pnotepad.org/ Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Shamil Salakhetdinov Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 3:01 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access or SQL Server Express to web Hello Susan, May I say that to start "cooking" ASP.NET 2.0 applications the minimal toolset is: - notepad.exe; - internet access with ASP.NET hosting account, which minimal monthly fee is usually under USD10 and includes both MS Access and MS SQL 2005 Express. That's it. No kidding. I'm very serious. :) All ASP.NET 2.0 web site project files (except web pages graphics) can be typed in notepad from scratch and if you will use SQL 2005 Express then all the SQL DDL and T-SQL scripts can be also typed in notedpad.exe and then executed to build MS SQL database.... ASP.NET 2.0 web application is a set of files placed in a folder with usually several (special purpose) subfolders. Most of them are text files as I noted above. There are no special project files keeping the structure of the ASP.NET project/application. There are several special purpose folders. ASP.NET app deployment is usually done using XCOPY. Even MS SQL Server Express database can be "installed"/deployed that way - placed in a special sub-folder named App_Data and referenced from web app's web.config file. ASP.NET development is an easy children's game - eternal joy comparing with all that "DLL-Hell" and other "Active-X blues"... ASP.NET 2.0 is a huge technology with many features to learn/master for years but the "start-up" fee/learning curve to make simple apps as you mentioned is surprisingly low... The fact is that 80%-90% of ASP.NET simple apps can be templated/generated/prepared manually (better using some tools of course) based on simple text templates: just spend some time analyzing .aspx files (and related aspx.cs/aspx.vb files) from many freely available great tutorials as e.g. these ones: http://www.asp.net/learn/data-access/ http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/aspplus/ http://www.aspnettutorials.com/ ASP.NET 2.0 is a "bound world". And so many things(/properties) can be bound so effectively in ASP.NET apps that the one who will experience just once this "bounding paradise" will never come back to any other existing technologies... And navigation between forms in many cases can be implementing declarative way... All in all you may find that to make simple apps you probably will not need to write any imperative (VB.NET/C#) code line... Warning: making highly scalable, multi-layered, "keeping pressure" of hundreds and thousands of simultaneous users ASP.NET apps is quite different story than the bright one I mentioned above... -- Shamil -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan Harkins Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 10:07 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access or SQL Server Express to web > > This could be done in Classic ASP (either handcoded or using Dreamweaver > Server Behaviors or add-ons to generate the database code) or it could be > coded in .NET. =======None of those are in my skillset right now. Well, I'm familiar with Dreamweaver, but I'd like to get some articles out of the venture, and Dreamweaver's rather old hat anymore. Susan H. -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com