[dba-Tech] What Platform for Web Application?

Also they have Starter Kits (red, full website examples) for Visual Web
Developer here:
http://www.asp.net/downloads/starterkits/default.aspx?tabid=62

Bobby
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Bobby Heid [mailto:bheid at sc.rr.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 11:18 AM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] What Platform for Web Application?

Rocky,

I just came across this today.  MS has released ASP AJAX 1.0.  They have
info here:
http://www.asp.net/default.aspx?tabindex=1&tabid=1

and videos (not just on AJAX) here:
http://www.asp.net/learn/videos/default.aspx?tabid=63 

Many of the videos are in VB.Net and C#.  They have examples in both
languages also.

I'm looking into this stuff also.

Bobby

----- Original Message ----
From: Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 12:19:17 AM
Subject: [dba-Tech] What Platform for Web Application?


So I'm thinking once again about learning a web platform so I can convert
two applications and I need a little advice.

The Sleep Advisor requires a minimum of data.  Just a few yes/no and 1-5
type responses and less than a couple hundred items, at most.  It's not even
split FE/BE.  It is an Access run-time at the moment but if it could be
converted to a web-based platform, we could charge per use on the internet,
instead of selling the program.

I have Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition which I have to try to learn.
Would this be a good platform to deploy The Sleep Advisor on the web?

In my Action Pack I also see something called Visual Web Developer 2005 -
Express Edition, which also looks, from the Microsoft web page on the
product like a good tool for this application.  But the code is very
proprietary and needs to be protected and I don't know if you can do this
with VWD.

Anyway, would VS2005 be a good tool to re-create the Sleep Advisor?  The
diagnostic engine has about 7000 lines of VBA and copying it over to VB and
tweaking it to make it run under VB would save a lot of work.  Or is this an
illusion?

I am also thinking about E-Z-MRP which is a major application by bulk and
scale and would require a lot of work.  But what for the back end? Can a
VS2005 application use an mdb?  Or does it need SQL Server?

Anyway I'm also wondering why I don't lay down until the feeling passes.

But any advice is welcome.

TIA



Rocky Smolin