Gustav Brock
Gustav at cactus.dk
Mon Jan 28 03:11:34 CST 2008
Hi Rocky, Jim, Jack, Stuart et al I had the same considerations - and went for Visual Studio 2005 Standard after good advice from several list members. One important reason was that most of these list members join the db-vb list. So do I now and we hope to build a list at the same level that the accessd list. By the way, look up the thread from April, October, and November 2007, "Dot Net, where to start?", which returned a lot of useful links to articles, books, code, and free videos including this from Arthur: Found the JumpStart code download and the book: http://examples.oreilly.com/vbjumpstart/ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/vbjumpstart/ This - with your Access background - is highly recommended. /gustav >>> rockysmolin at bchacc.com 26-01-2008 16:45:39 >>> Dear List: I am trying to decide what to do when I grow up. Access is great but I think the market for indies like myself is declining and I'm thinking that I need to learn some new tricks. The question is just what to learn. I like developing small business applications - that's my strength. So that would be my target market. But what platform? I suppose whatever it is had better be web friendly. Everyone seems to want their databases and applications to reside on the web. Or, if local, run them in a browser. So what should I learn? VB.Net? ASP? I already have Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition which I got at a Microsoft Launch and includes SQL Server 2005. I also have VB 2008 Express Edition and Visual Web Developer. I also have Front Page but that's been obsolete by Expressions which I can get from the Web. But I don't know how these different components relate. Is ASP part of Visual Studio? Is ASP to .NET as DAO is to Access? Can you deploy a .Net app to the web or do you use something like Expressions to do it? What should I learn? Maybe I can combine what I need to learn with a Microsoft tutorial that will get me back into the Partner Program. I'm a bit at sea here as you can tell. But assuming that I don't lay down and let the feeling pass, I think it's time to start taking a serious look at what I'm going to do for the next ten years. Probably a couple years past due, actually. Any advice/experience is of course, welcome. Regards, Rocky