[dba-VB] Web page manipulation

Hi John

How about LightSwitch:

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/lightswitch 

It is still in beta, I know, but given the modest requirements of these two apps ...

/gustav


>>> jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com 13-12-2010 17:57 >>>
 > If you use a hosting company that supports ASP.NET it is almost a given that they will provide 
SQL Server.

Right.  But if I do the Clickonce distribution of a normal C# app then I would not be using ASP.Net 
and I could just use any web host that provided MySQL, which is just about all of them.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

On 12/13/2010 11:35 AM, Doug Murphy wrote:
> If you use a hosting company that supports ASP.NET it is almost a given that
> they will provide SQL Server.
>
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>
> The "clients" are tiny and completely non-technical.  One is a non-profit
> that assists people with disabilities to find service providers and other
> assistance.  They have about a half dozen people that work for them, meeting
> the people needing assistance, usually in that person's home.  The database
> will be a dozen or so tables and is basically just for hours worked kind of
> stuff.
>
> The other "client" is a prison ministry which has lists of programs they
> provide in the prisons, volunteers, churches and pastors.  Again, as hand
> full of volunteers that need to get at this information and maintain it,
> again working out of their homes.
>
> Both applications need to hit a database over the internet, and are pretty
> much simple data entry and some reporting.
>
> Both are sure to grow but I need to just get the basics up and running,
> hopefully fairly rapidly.  I have no control over the web hosting.  Very
> likely I will need to use MySQL since that is almost universal for web
> hosting sites, so if they have a web site already, that will almost
> certainly be available.
>
> Access just seems to be a bad fit for these, and I have zero knowledge even
> about how to set up the MySQL database, connect to it etc.
>
> I have a web site that provides me with these services, already paid for and
> which I could use initially at least to get set up and running, and up to
> speed knowledge wise.  Eventually I will need to move the data out to their
> own web hosting if I can.
>
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com