[AccessD] Old Dog - New Tricks

Rocky, I STRONGLY recommend that you learn HTML and ASP.  ASP.Net is
handy, but the reason I recommend learning the older ASP is two fold.
One, you need NO special tools to use it.  You can write ASP with
notepad.  It's just a script.  ASP.Net has 'events', which I could be
written with Notepad, but you would need to know how to 'code' the
events.  The second reason, is that ASP.Net is a little misleading as to
how it actually works.  For example, it will give you an OnClick event
for a button.  It makes it appear like the user has a 'live' connection
to the webserver, when they really don't.  It does this using client
side scripting.  Learning classic ASP will help you understand web
page/server interactions a lot better.

Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin
at Beach Access Software
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 9:46 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: [AccessD] Old Dog - New Tricks

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
 
 
 
 
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