Opinions from CE 9 developers...

[bessebo]

We are implementing CE 9 at my company and I was wondering what skill, in particular, would be the most helpful when it comes to doing development with CE 9. Would it be more beneficial to learn ASP, HTML, Java Script, VB Script? Any help from someone who is deep into it would be much appreciated.

Regards,
Bessebo

 

[Hypermommy]

Are you going to use the ePortfolio sample app that comes with it? If so, I'd say learn ASP with Javascript as that's what it's mostly written in.

-= Hypermommy =-

 

[bessebo]

I'd like to modify the ePortfolio so that it is more customized for my company. Do you recommend any technical resources on ASP programming?

Regards,
Bessebo

 

[synapsevampire]

Minimal customization can be done using the CSS files, replacing colors, and a few graphics, I do this for most clients, minimizing the codebase.

Here's the colors:

http://support.crystaldecisions.com/library/kbase/articles/c2013357.asp

CE uses CSP, not ASP, though they are similar.

CE also supports VBscript.

Here are some resources:

http://support.crystaldecisions.com/communityCS/TechnicalPapers/ce8_asp_vs_csp.pdf.asp

http://support.crystaldecisions.com/communityCS/FilesAndUpdates/ce85_csp_samples.exe.asp

http://support.crystaldecisions.com/communityCS/TechnicalPapers/apps_ras_net.pdf

-k

 

[DanENW]

If you read through the various note, help, and other documentation files that ship with CE9 you will find that CSP is to be depreciated sometime after the release of CE9 (whatever that means).

Information presented at CDUGNA last May seemed to indicate that a better development environment may be available with CE10 or CE11.