What software do you use to create ASP apps?

[Spyder1000]

I've pretty comfortable with MS Access and creating useful tools with it and I’ve briefly explored some basic ASP but I would like to learn much more about the subject and was wondering what sort of software and programs do you use to create ASP pages and applications?

I created this site with very basic ASP pages that allow new records to be added to an Access database as well as view records currently in the system but I’d like to do much more than that.

http://k.1asphost.com/GT4Challenge/index.htm

I've played around with Visual Basic.Net but often it seems like it creates massive amounts of extra files whose purpose to me is unknown. For example. In my whole site I linked above it contains an ASP & HTML page to enter a record, an Access MDB to store them, and another ASP file to view the report. Pretty simple stuff. But under VB.Net I don't even know where to begin creating such a site and when I do manage to generate an ASP page there is a truck load of other files that seem to come along with it.

 

[DotNetGnat]

After seeing your link, it looks like you have pretty good skills with ASP. So i think you already have some knowledge on how to create ASP applications...so your question about what software to use for creating ASP is confusing me...

you can use the basic notepad to create asp pages...the other tools you can use to write asp pages are ultraedit, textpad,1st page2000, Front Page etc...i mean any basic text editor will do...

Now coming to the .NET applications part....its a completely different scenario when compared to asp. ASP.NET introduces the object oriented programming when compared to the "spaghetti" code of asp.

Visual Studio.NET is the environment that we use to develop .net applications....and you have already noticed when we create each project there will be lot of supporting files associated with it...dot net is a very big framework and it needs lots of supporting files that visual studio.net environment creates...if you dont want this mess...

you can use any text editor to write a .net page just as you do for writing as asp page...just name it with the .aspx extension...

now back to your question...do you want to create a asp or asp.net application...please clarify...you are mixing both asp and asp.net when they are actually very different...

-DNG

 

[Spyder1000]

I see. I'm just trying to learn if there is a specfific application used to generate ASP pages similar to the VB.Net used for ASP.net.

Basically i'm just looking for more interaction with my database. I have two goals right now:

I'd like to be able to automatically populate a field with today's date when a new record is generated.

I'd like to be able to have a form where a user types in a peice of test, their User ID for example, and every new record entered into the database would automatically have that User ID entered into a field.

 

[DotNetGnat]

i would suggest you to refer to this asp tutorials available on this link:

http://www.w3schools.com/asp

there are many functionalities that asp can do including the ones you mentioned above..aslo you can mix vbscript and javascript with asp to achieve more functionality...

now to your questions:

1. to populate the a field with today's date you just need to use...

now() function....something like this...

Response.Write now()

there are many ways of formating the outputting..please refer the FormatDateTime() function for it...

2. For saving the records with the userID you can store this value in the form of Request.Form Variables or Session variables...

Hope this helps...

post back if you have any more questions...

-DNG

 

[way2many]

Hi DNG,
I'm just a tech. user as Spyder1000.
I think that Spyder1000 & myself would like to know from you & other professionals, who program asp pages every day, if you are using something else besides Notepad for speeding up application development?

Thank you.

 

[DotNetGnat]

here are some others that you can use:

TextPad

http://www.textpad.com/

Ultraedit

http://www.ultraedit.com/

1st page 2000

http://www.wdvl.com/Reviews/HTML/1stPage2000.html

-DNG

 

[DotNetGnat]

More:

CuteEditor

http://www.cutesoft.net/ASP/

ASPExpress

http://aspexpress.com/aspexpress.asp

HapEdit

http://hapedit.free.fr/

FCKEditor

http://www.fckeditor.net/

SO there are more like this...just google for free text editors for asp...

Also you can use MS FrontPage,DreamWeaver etc..

-DNG

 

[DotNetGnat]

also please refer to this very informative thread...

thread333-522942

-DNG

 

[guitardave78]

Dreamweaver mx and editplus tend to work for me

}...the bane of my life!

http://www.fuzzyd.co.uk

 

[tsdragon]

I use a combination of EditPlus, HTML Pad 2005 and MS Visual Interdev for the coding part. Languages are VBScript on the server side and JavaScript on the client side. Back-end database is MS SQL Server.


Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.