Using VB.Net for Web Development 1

[arniec]

Dear Gurus,

I have been searching for quite a while to figure out how VB.Net is useful in an HTML environment. I have seen lots of marketing jargon saying it integrates with ASP.Net and can make useful ActiveX components, but I am a VB programmer and I have a strong web development background and, for the life of me, I don't see how VB.Net can help with web site creation and maintenance. Is there something I am missing?

I was hoping VB.Net would enable me to create a database driven, server side updatable web site where I could make one change and code would cascade my changes through all relevant pages (Table of contents, main page, what's new page, etc.) but currently I think my best bet is to make a desktop solution in VB, incorporate FTP capabilities similar to FrontPage's which will automatically sync updated files with the web server's copies, and go that route. The problem with that is it limits development to the machine which has mhy app, and to make the development run server-side with a MySQL database back-end seems easier in theory, but I can't figure out how to do it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Rhys666]

You really need to look into .Net and the differences between Vb 6 and .Net, and the implementation of ASP.net which is massively different from traditional ASP.

To try and put it briefly in laymens terms (and hopefully not get flamed for it) VB.Net is an implementation language of the .net framework, as are j#, c# etc.

ASP.net is a web implementation of the .Net framework
Windows forms are a Windows implementation of the .net framework.

To create Windows Forms or Web applications you have to implement the .Net framework using a .Net framework language, i.e., VB.net.

ASP.net takes a step away from traditional in-line ASP code, separating the server side and client side. HTML and scripting languages used for client side manipulation, the .net language for Server Side. ASP.net simply exposes far more powerful server side functionality more readily than traditional ASP, by utilising the power of the .Net assemblies via the .net language chosen.

Yes I believe you can readily do what you are looking to achieve but form scratch it'll take a decent learning curve to do so.

Hope this helps

Rhys
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