RE: FN-FORUM: asp.net questions

date posted 25th August 2005 07:06

Hi

You're going to go from coding in a LAMP environment to .NET without
even understanding the basic constructs of an ASPX page? I admire your
balls.
A few things to remember:

1. ASP.NET _is_not_asp_=20
2. VB.NET _is_not_vb_
3. C# is beautiful - but is basically Java
4. If you understand OO, inheritance, polymorphism, cohesion, coupling
etc then your well on your way, if not don't panic.
5. You don't have to use the IDE provided by MS but it certainly helps.
6. ADO.NET _is_not_ADO_
7. .NET 2.0 and VS 2005 are very, very nice, even the designer is
f***king wicked. EVEN IN BETA. It will output XHTML1 STRICT no problem.
8. VS 2003 doesn't have to mess up your code if you configure it right.
9. VS 2003/IIS/.NET 1 finds it hard to output XHTML1 STRICT because of
the way it handles certain things, if you need a class that grabs the
HTTP stream and converts it before its sent from the server give me a
shout.
10. The datagrid, datarepeater etc are all your friends as are web user
controls, you can program against them as they are classes. Very, very
nice.
11. .NET WHIPS MOST (read all) OTHER METHODS ASSES. As you will find
out. You are entering a whole new world of programmability,
expressionism and power. Kind of makes other languages look like Tommy -
my first programming language for kids. Though PHP/Apache is quite cool
you will find they lag behind MS technology .
12. Get support - join one of the many help lists and forums such as the
MSWEBDEV mailing list: http://www.MsWebDev.org.uk/ or
http://aspadvice.com
13. If you are going to use VS2005 for production stuff you need to sign
the declaration for using BETA in production from MS.


HTH and good luck

W



-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of rich
Sent: 24 August 2005 22:43
To: wayne
Subject: FN-FORUM: asp.net questions


Any asp.net coders on the list? I'm a LAMP developer and I just been=20
told that there's a chance I will have to develop a site with asp.net=20
sometime soon and I'm just wondering what's the general consensus is=20
about the .net version of ASP from a developer's perspective. I've heard

some good stuff about it but I've also heard that you have to use the=20
IDE to produce any asp.net code - is that true? Is C# the language of=20
choice for all?

TIA
rich


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