New to ASP.NET and SQL

Report · Aug 07, 2006

I have been designing static web sites with DW for a short while and am competent in HTML

Our company now required me to do the following
1. Be able to compile databases in MySQL/SQL
2. To develop ASP.NET knowledge and integrate my web interfaces with this technology

I have Studio 8, Visual Studio 2005 as well as SQl server software (full)

Windows NT will be the platform for all work.

I know this will be fairly extensive work, but I could use a pointer or two to get me started. One of the very first applications I will need to write is a small error reporting system on the use of the company software, where users can report problems and programmers (delphi) fix it and change the status of the problem via the websiteetc. It will be self contained with its own database. So i have to build a web application that can do this. The company are commited to a ASP.NET approach.

Please tell me where I should be starting where I can both begin to increase my knowledge base and also eventually soon be in a position to be able to write the database and funtionality of the web page. I have only made static HTML before, not even used XML yet so Im very hazy on where to go from here.

Any help really appreciated. Sorry if anything not clear. If there are publications that I can get stuck into that is fine. Im not expecting any comprehensive answers as I need a lot of help!

Cheers

Chris

Report · Aug 07, 2006

You company probably thinks that building dynamic database driven websites
is a natural extension of building static HTML websites. This is not the
case. It requires a completely different skillset and mindset from the
developers. It's a bit like asking Wayne Rooney to play in goal.

Your company probably thinks that because you have built static HTML sites,
you will easily pick up on how to build dynamic database driven websites.
This is not the case. Although it can depend on your background. Those from
a technical background pick it up quicker than those from a non-technical
background. In your position, I'd suggest you'd need at least 12 months
training.

I'd suggest that you pop over to www.asp.net and digest all the information
it has to offer. Next you could over to Amazon and buy some books on the
subject from the publishers SAMS and WROX.

Good luck, have fun :)

--
Jules
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Report · Aug 07, 2006

> subject from the publishers SAMS and WROX.

Avoid WROX at all costs.

The books are copyedited by monkeys. Grammar mistakes, puncuation mistakes,
and, most annoying, all sorts of bugs in the sample code.

-Darrel

Report · Aug 07, 2006

Yes, it's fair comment to say that WROX books are a bit daunting for
beginners. They can assume a lot of knowledge.

--
Jules
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Report · Aug 07, 2006

> Yes, it's fair comment to say that WROX books are a bit daunting for
> beginners. They can assume a lot of knowledge.

That might be true, but my main gripe is that they're just full of
grammatical and code mistakes.

At least this was true several years ago.

A bit of googling seems to indicate that I'm not alone in having this
opinion: ;o)

http://www.aspnetresources.com/books/default.aspx

-Darrel

Report · Aug 07, 2006

I never cared for Wrox, ever since that asptoday.com site started charging
for their articles. Not to mention when I bought two .NET Beta 1 books and
the Beta 2 came out a week later. Maybe not their fault on that one, but I
have to blame someone other than myself :0

I like Prentice Hall, Apress, Addison Wesley.

Ron

"darrel" <notreal@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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>
>> Yes, it's fair comment to say that WROX books are a bit daunting for
>> beginners. They can assume a lot of knowledge.
>
> That might be true, but my main gripe is that they're just full of
> grammatical and code mistakes.
>
> At least this was true several years ago.
>
> A bit of googling seems to indicate that I'm not alone in having this
> opinion: ;o)
>
> http://www.aspnetresources.com/books/default.aspx
>
> -Darrel
>
>
>

Report · Aug 07, 2006

darrel wrote:
>>Yes, it's fair comment to say that WROX books are a bit daunting for
>>beginners. They can assume a lot of knowledge.
>
> That might be true, but my main gripe is that they're just full of
> grammatical and code mistakes.
>
> At least this was true several years ago.

Don't compare Wrox of several years ago with what's being published now.
Peer Information, the owners of Wrox, went bankrupt in early 2003. The
Wrox imprint was subsequently bought by Wiley. The only relationship
between the old Wrox and the new is the style of book covers.

--
David Powers
Adobe Community Expert
Author, "Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/

Report · Aug 08, 2006

And they keep repeating themselves!

Report · Aug 09, 2006

I'd like to point out that while Dreamweaver is a fantastic website everythinger, it does not support .net 2.0, the current version of asp... If you want to code in asp, consider Microsoft's Visual Studio or Visual Studio Express (the free version).

Report · Aug 14, 2006

thankyou for all your replies, they were appreciated

after some meetings, the company have decided to employ a developer who will be taking care of the ASP.NET programming element

I have decided to use Visual Studio for my design work, but I am using DW to understand some of the concepts behind using CSS for layout, as this seems the way forward.