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Hello,
I am new to Web programming. I have close to 30 years programming in many other areas and that experience leads me to these questions.
1. Many articles I have read tout VS.NET 2003 as a real breakthrough in productivity. I now believe much of this derives from the ASP.NET Designer Page. Experienced Web programmers here are in the habit of writing HTML (and related) code that cannot be displayed in the Designer. This appears to be caused by Page.resolveURL in the HTML code to point to image files. This is an application that should be (HIPAA regs) relatively isolated. I understand why resolveURL would be used, but is it really necessary in a static directory structure?
2. Local evolving standards have come out strongly against Grid Layout Forms. I understand one should choose flow layout if multiple browsers are used by the user community, but in this case, only IE 6.0 and up will be used. It seems to me that Grid Layout makes development much faster. What are the good reasons for choosing either strategy here? Is this being driven by prejudices of experienced programmers against new tools and techniques (I remember the howls when Structured Programming came out) ?
I really want to learn where these lines are drawn.
Thanks,
mklapp
I am new to Web programming. I have close to 30 years programming in many other areas and that experience leads me to these questions.
1. Many articles I have read tout VS.NET 2003 as a real breakthrough in productivity. I now believe much of this derives from the ASP.NET Designer Page. Experienced Web programmers here are in the habit of writing HTML (and related) code that cannot be displayed in the Designer. This appears to be caused by Page.resolveURL in the HTML code to point to image files. This is an application that should be (HIPAA regs) relatively isolated. I understand why resolveURL would be used, but is it really necessary in a static directory structure?
2. Local evolving standards have come out strongly against Grid Layout Forms. I understand one should choose flow layout if multiple browsers are used by the user community, but in this case, only IE 6.0 and up will be used. It seems to me that Grid Layout makes development much faster. What are the good reasons for choosing either strategy here? Is this being driven by prejudices of experienced programmers against new tools and techniques (I remember the howls when Structured Programming came out) ?
I really want to learn where these lines are drawn.
Thanks,
mklapp