IDC?

[Guest_imported]

Does anyone know anything about using the built in IDC (Internet Database Connector) with IIS4? In particular I am using SQL 7 as my datase back end and using IIS4 w/ IDC to view/update my database. If anyone has any experience with this, could you please respond, either here, or via email to john@tritechlabs.com... I will explain my question once I find someone who knows what I am talking about <br>

 

[larrylb]

Yes I have some experience in these matters ...put your question here so we can respond

 

[Guest_imported]

Whoa! That was a month ago! I have no idea what I was talking about at the time. IDC is great though, and I am slowly learning alot about it. If I think of any particular questions or whatever, I will be sure to post them Thanks for the reply though!<br>
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John Vogel<br>

 

[bigfoot]

IDC is old. ASP is the way to go if u r running NT

 

[Guest_imported]

I wouldn't mind learning ASP, do you have any good links I could check out with some begginner tutorials, samples, and the like?

 

[databarn]

jvogel,<br>
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ASP is not difficult to learn, but there does seem to be a dearth of _good_ (e.g., appropriate) material on the subject. However, there are a couple of recommendations that might help. <br>
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The first is

http://www.thebestweb.com,

which is a site maintained by Charles Carroll. A more specific link is

http://www.learnasp.com/learn/

that will provide access to his 'quick lessons'. The first link is provided jsut so you'll be able to see some of what Charles thinks he can do. The second link is a freebie that Charles has provided which shows that Charles is not far off in what he thinks he can do.<br>
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Also, the second link, if you progress through it in order, will give you a fairly solid grounding in ASP. At the very least, it will equip you with the ability to use ASP and your scripting method(s) of choice to develop in areas that you might have thought denied to you because of server-side requirements. Be aware that most of the script involved is vbscript.<br>
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There is a downside to ASP, but it is being overcome. ASP is, or at least was, pretty much WinNT server specific. But Chili Pepper Software has a solution that allows ASP to run on Apache servers, and I've been told there are others. Bound to be more, because ASP is really pretty simple for the effect it can produce.<br>
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OK, there's another ASP resource I wanted to mention, but I don';t have the refernce for it right now. It's a book, Professional Active Server Pages 2.0, out of WROX Press. Hah! Found the ISBN. It's 1-861001-26-6: $60+ US, $80+ Canadian, don't have a clue what it might cost elsewhere, but it _is_ good.<br>
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There's probably more I should say here, but, 'I'm tired and I want to go to bed . . .," and you can pick your own tune for the lyric &lt;grin!&gt;.<br>
<br>
Make a good day . . .<br>
. . . barn<br>

 

[Guest_imported]

Thank you very much. Your information helps alot! I am going to check out the above mentioned links, and hopefully will be able to understand more than I presently do <br>
There are just so many ways of doing so many things, how on earth can one ever learn them all? Thanks Again!<br>
<br>
John Vogel<br>
WebMaster<br>

http://ComputerWiz.Net<br>

<br>
Email:webmaster@computerwiz.net

 

[davidsheardown]

HAVE A LOOK AT &quot;RDS&quot; (Remote Data Services) !!<br>
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Excellent technology running on IIS4 with ADO 2.x. Very powerfull stuff - you can use the easy query method to get data back and forth from you DB server, or create/instantiate MTS COM objects in a dataspace using client scripting ...