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I have a full, legal copy of Visual Studio.net 2003 on my work machine, I
don't need the free product that was suggested [in another ng], (unless it
has a built in tutorial). However, I have no major clue how to create a
sophisticated asp.net application in VS. I can find my way around the basic
VS interface easily enough thanks to a generic VS class I took, but that's
it. I guess what I actually need is a GOOD and DETAILED tutorial for asp.net
in VS.
What I will be doing is creating ASP.net programs utilizing SQL Server
databases, not VB.net projects. However, since the ASP.net db related stuff
works with VB syntax etc, there's the rub. The HTML part is not the problem,
it's the VB. I don't know the syntax, nor the "methods" etc, or anything
else. I see all of the reference entries on MSDN, but how and where and when
to use what? Dunno. I wasn't even sure what "class" and "controls" meant in
this context, for example (I sortof do now). I've created simple asp.net
apps (from random tutorials I found) with no "fancy" stuff like logging in
or editing form data and saving the data to a db, or doing reports based on
form selection criteria, etc etc. The class I took touched briefly on
asp.net and all it did was a browser-based interest calculator. No database
access at all except to create a quick and dirty grid, which was not helpful
to me at all.
I can easily do everything I need to do in (non .net) asp pages using a
mishmash of VB Script and ASP/ADO stuff. Not fancy, not elegant, but it
works very nicely. I need to move into .Net, tho, and there's where I get
lost.
So can anyone suggest any really good *asp.net* tutorials? We've looked
around our smallish city and there does not appear to be any training
outfits that offer relevant classes or that are reasonably affordable, hence
my turning to the web. Books are fine, but my inclination is the web if only
because tech evolves so quickly and books quickly get outdated.
Hope this makes sense
don't need the free product that was suggested [in another ng], (unless it
has a built in tutorial). However, I have no major clue how to create a
sophisticated asp.net application in VS. I can find my way around the basic
VS interface easily enough thanks to a generic VS class I took, but that's
it. I guess what I actually need is a GOOD and DETAILED tutorial for asp.net
in VS.
What I will be doing is creating ASP.net programs utilizing SQL Server
databases, not VB.net projects. However, since the ASP.net db related stuff
works with VB syntax etc, there's the rub. The HTML part is not the problem,
it's the VB. I don't know the syntax, nor the "methods" etc, or anything
else. I see all of the reference entries on MSDN, but how and where and when
to use what? Dunno. I wasn't even sure what "class" and "controls" meant in
this context, for example (I sortof do now). I've created simple asp.net
apps (from random tutorials I found) with no "fancy" stuff like logging in
or editing form data and saving the data to a db, or doing reports based on
form selection criteria, etc etc. The class I took touched briefly on
asp.net and all it did was a browser-based interest calculator. No database
access at all except to create a quick and dirty grid, which was not helpful
to me at all.
I can easily do everything I need to do in (non .net) asp pages using a
mishmash of VB Script and ASP/ADO stuff. Not fancy, not elegant, but it
works very nicely. I need to move into .Net, tho, and there's where I get
lost.
So can anyone suggest any really good *asp.net* tutorials? We've looked
around our smallish city and there does not appear to be any training
outfits that offer relevant classes or that are reasonably affordable, hence
my turning to the web. Books are fine, but my inclination is the web if only
because tech evolves so quickly and books quickly get outdated.
Hope this makes sense