Coding Questions: --- Important to understand 1

[ixian]

Hey all,

I have a question about using some the functionality of ASP coding.

How often and is it important to learn these areas of scripting in/of ASP:
1)Transactions
2)Message Queuing
3)ADSI
4)CDO for NT
5)CDO for win2000
6)Indexing Services

Aaron

Fear is the mind killer!!!!!!

 

[vasah20]

ASP transactions...
I don't think that they are very important, since all the real transactions should be contained within your DBMS. You can enable them, though, but they add significant overhead.

Message Queuing...
If you are going to be running something using MSMQ (or something of the like) then you should learn message queuing. If you aren't, then be familiar with it, but don't go too overboard. IMHO MSMQ is very beneficial when you need to communicate data across multiple computers where you might get a significant load (IE: bottleneck issues etc.)

ADSI...
Again - if you are going to be actively manipulating your directories, make sure you learn it.

CDO (NT, W2K)...
Know CDO because it's likely that you will have to email something from an ASP application. Know enough of it that you can send out emails, and so you can get other components to send out emails too. There's no need for you to learn the ins and outs of CDO, just be able to look at it and simple troubleshoot, if necessary.

Index server...
Are you going to have a lot of static content on your site?
If so, then you should learn index server, as that is a very good way to search static pages. If you are doing more DB work than anything, I wouldn't worry about it too much.

Take everything I've said with a grain of salt, since I'm not as versed on ADSI or MSMQ as I would like to be... but the situation hasn't arose for me yet where I should be.

It would be best to get a couple different ideas on this, because I'm pretty sure that there will be some disagreement on what's impt. and what isn't. Again - ultimately it all depends on the scope of your application.

hth
leo

 

[ixian]

leo,

thanks. For your input.

Aaron Fear is the mind killer!!!!!!