New ASP.NET forum

[kyledunn]

I am grateful to Dave Murphy, CEO of Tek-Tips, for launching this new forum. I have been working with .NET since Beta 1, currently I'm using Beta 2. I am excited about the potential of .NET as a development environment and happy to be one of the early adopters. I searched the forum for ASP.NET discussion and found none so I requested that this forum be created. I look forward to sharing ASP.NET with anyone who cares to join.

Kyle

 

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I have the opportunity to recommend options to create a web application. I've been thinking about ASP and HTML, ActiveX documents and ASP .NET. Do you think creating a web application using ASP .NET would be a wise choice or should we wait until the final product is released. Thanks for any imput you can give me.

 

[kyledunn]

Yes, I think using ASP.NET would be a wise choice. You don't mention your experience so I can't factor that in. If you are an experienced ASP programmer then you may want to go with what is easy for you because there will be a learning curve you must factor in. But considering that the final release of .NET will come some time around the first of the year, if you start with the beta now, from what I've been told, the port to the final version should be relatively easy and shouldn't delay your project. The pluses for ASP.NET are a much more powerful development and debugging environment (I wouldn't consider ASP.NET without also using Visual Studio.NET as the development environment) and compiled executable code translating to better performance of your web site application. Neither choice is bad but if it were me I would be recommending ASP.NET.

Kyle

Here's what DavesTips had to say about Visual Studio.NET in the C# forum:

I'd say, once you've used the fantastic VS.Net IDE, discovered the incredible ease of writing say a web database application full of complex controls with just a few mouseclicks, walked through the code running on a web server with the amazing debugger and successfully got something up and running without spending ages wondering why activex objects weren't being instantiated and so on, and finally rolled out the app with a simple copy, you'll be wondering why you felt so fond of that old-fashioned way of doing things that you were struggling with for so long...and then you'll notice that those who started learning with the .Net Beta have a long headstart on you for all those contracts that will be coming...

 

[Gorecki]

We're 2/3 done with a project in .NET. If you learn it now, you're certainly ahead of the game. It took me about a 1 1/2 months to really get what's going on. On this current project, I don't know what I would have done without it. Writing it in ASP classic would have been a royal headache. The only limitation is the browser, otherwise ASP.NET is the most advanced application developmnent platform for the web that has ever existed in my opinion.

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