ASP to ASP.Net

[baz0hara]

I have quite a site for my football team maintained by a self built CMS using
ASP with a DNS connection to a MS Database. I pretty much built this site
within Dreamweaver MX (esp the recordsets) and done some ad hoc coding for
extra bits. My hosting company has moved over to windows 2003 and will not be
installing all the asp components i want and have stated that a lot of the
stuff i do would be easier in ASP.Net.

My only concern is the support you get from dreamweaver for ASP.Net? Will i
have to re code every page manually or can i still creat recordsets and repeat
regions within dreamweaver? I have no idea what functionality there is for
ASP.Net within dreamweaver so any feedback is great.

Also, if i had to manually code with ASP.Net is it worth the effort of
learning the new syntax, how different is it?

Kind regards
Barry

[Lionstone]

ASP .NET is very different. Don't let the similar name fool you.
That being said, if you wrote your current ASP site using mainly DW built-in
behaviors, you can do the same with ASP .NET with little effort. If you
wrote your own code, or think you might need to, then DW's .NET support is
not what you'll need. You'd be much happier using Visual Studio in
conjunction with DW.

ASP will continue to be supported for a long time. If your host won't be
installing some components that it used to use, try instead to alter only
those sections of your site to use components they DO have installed. Also
keep in mind that your whole site need not be .NET. Classic ASP and ASP
..NET can co-exist on the same site, just not the same page, so you have the
option of only rewriting the pages that use the no longer available
components.


"baz0hara" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:dhc63n$9kp$1@forums.macromedia.com...

>I have quite a site for my football team maintained by a self built CMS
>using
> ASP with a DNS connection to a MS Database. I pretty much built this site
> within Dreamweaver MX (esp the recordsets) and done some ad hoc coding for
> extra bits. My hosting company has moved over to windows 2003 and will not
> be
> installing all the asp components i want and have stated that a lot of the
> stuff i do would be easier in ASP.Net.
>
> My only concern is the support you get from dreamweaver for ASP.Net? Will
> i
> have to re code every page manually or can i still creat recordsets and
> repeat
> regions within dreamweaver? I have no idea what functionality there is for
> ASP.Net within dreamweaver so any feedback is great.
>
> Also, if i had to manually code with ASP.Net is it worth the effort of
> learning the new syntax, how different is it?
>
> Kind regards
> Barry
>

[baz0hara]

thanks for your reply the information is much appreciated. would you mind
taking a couple of minutes to look at nmy below queries as well?

So within dreamweaver would I be able to do the following in ASP.Net using the
behaviours etc ..
set up a DNS connection to a MS Access database
create recordsets
update record sets
delete recordsets
dynamic lists
repeat regions
set up admin pages, hence cms

If so i can handle learning the additional coding as it is just session
variables and redirections nested in if statements blah blah, nothing
complicated like a shopping cart or something.

Will the following work with ASP.Net or will i have to use alternatives:
JMAIL
ASPUpload
Adrotator

what do i need to do to set up a testing server on windows 2k? just install
the .net framework on iis?

[Lionstone]

See below.

"baz0hara" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:dhek7n$p6$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> thanks for your reply the information is much appreciated. would you mind
> taking a couple of minutes to look at nmy below queries as well?
>
> So within dreamweaver would I be able to do the following in ASP.Net using
> the
> behaviours etc ..
> set up a DNS connection to a MS Access database

No. You'll have to use OLE DB. But that's actually better, and you can get
all the info you need at [url]www.connectionstrings.com[/url]. It's very easy.

> create recordsets

Sure. They're just called data sets or data grids.

> update record sets
> delete recordsets

Yep. The data grid control supports modification.

> dynamic lists
> repeat regions

No problems there.

> set up admin pages, hence cms

Yep. Although how difficult that becomes depends on how feature heavy your
CMS is. But as far as simple login/restrict access, there's no issue.

>
> If so i can handle learning the additional coding as it is just session
> variables and redirections nested in if statements blah blah, nothing
> complicated like a shopping cart or something.
>

You'll find most of this is the same, as long as you choose VB .NET as your
language in ASP .NET. The biggest difference is that in most cases, you
have to Dim variables and declare them with a type (Dim myCount AS int)

> Will the following work with ASP.Net or will i have to use alternatives:
> JMAIL
> ASPUpload
> Adrotator

You'd have to find the people who wrote the components to be sure. But the
ASPUpload component is unnecessary. File uploads are built into the .NET
framework. You can also use CDOSYS for e-mail; it's included with Windows.

>
> what do i need to do to set up a testing server on windows 2k? just
> install
> the .net framework on iis?
>

That's it. The .NET framework is available from
windowsupdate.microsoft.com. You should install version 1.1, and after the
install, run Windows Update again. There's a service pack for it.

[baz0hara]

Thanks Lionstone i really appreciate the feedabck. I am going to start building
a ASP.Net site next week.

Do you have a website or a text book that that you would reconmend? preferably
covering the creation of a .net site based on a connection to a MS Access
database??