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Onlyone · Newbie Joined: Jul 26 2004 Posts: 13 Offline

Unfortunately i need to learn Asp for a reason i wont go into. Furthermore, i accidently bought a book on asp.net that is in VB. Should i get a book that teaches asp.net in C or keep the VB one.

I guess the real question is... is there any benefit of learning VB or C in this cirumstance or not?

SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

asp is proprietary - ie, it sucks, you shouldn't use it (just use php)
if you MUST use asp, you may as well use a language that isn't proprietary so you don't waste your time - try Perl(Script?)

bottom line: if you're taking a class that REQUIRES you to do something in ASP (with the possible exception of something entitled something like "Problem solving: forced to use stuff that sucks"), you should drop the class because it is bullshit

if you're taking the class for some reason like - I don't know - a major revolving around Microsoft Windows...then, um, go ahead and learn VBScript and be a tool

D1st0rt · Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 10:39 am Post subject:

for ASP.Net, I use C#. I hate VB with a passion
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Onlyone · Newbie Joined: Jul 26 2004 Posts: 13 Offline

Its for my ROTC outfits website. The guy that hosts all the ROTC sites will only allow asp for god knows what reason.

Is VB good for anything?

Mr Ekted · Movie Geek Gender: Joined: Feb 09 2004 Posts: 1379 Offline

God> *shrug*
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CypherJF · Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 1:03 pm Post subject:

VB is good for quick development

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Onlyone · Newbie Joined: Jul 26 2004 Posts: 13 Offline

What a waste of money...

Anyone know any goods sites with asp programming tutorials in C#

SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

Onlyone · Newbie Joined: Jul 26 2004 Posts: 13 Offline

"Get a new host"

- If i could i would but, its not that easy.

What do you need the asp for anyways?

- News, schedule, etc..

ZiGNoTZaG · Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 7:34 am Post subject:

D1st0rt · Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 8:05 am Post subject:

C# is easy to debug, it uses the same friggin IDE. And the Borland Dev Environments are nice as shit.

There are a lot of places for c#: (Just a few, use google)
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/
http://www.csharphelp.com/
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/
http://www.csharp-station.com/
http://www.gotdotnet.com/

http://www.asp.net/ Has a lot of tutorials for asp

ZiGNoTZaG · Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 8:21 am Post subject:

looks interesting.

but.... isnt that designed for .NET?

CypherJF · Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 5:28 pm Post subject:

once again .NET is "ew".

D1st0rt · Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 9:03 pm Post subject:

yes, thats all .NET because that's the new stuff that's being supported widely. You can use WebMatrix to make ASP.NET sites, its free and like frontpage only with coding too. Then you can go to europe.webmatrixhosting.com and get a nice free site to test it out. Has ftp, no ads, and a SQL database

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 1:01 pm Post subject:

You don't need ASP for the news and schedule (definitely not for the news), just edit the HTML and CSS.
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Onlyone · Newbie Joined: Jul 26 2004 Posts: 13 Offline

Im working with people that dont know what html and css is. Therefore, they need a basic way to update the without editing html directing and uploading every time.

SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

use a php CMS

D1st0rt · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 7:47 pm Post subject:

phpnuke works. If you HAVE to use ASP.Net, you can use DotNetNuke or RainbowPortal

Argyle · Newbie Joined: Feb 26 2003 Posts: 12 Offline

If you are learning .NET go to http://www.4guysfromrolla.com . If you want to get more advanced look at the design principles at http://www.wilsondotnet.com