I've been checking out some of those www.asp.net/learn vB.NET/SQL videos... nice little tutorials to get a newbee started.

But I'm basically finding out that all the ASP.NET server controls like GridView / Detailsview / Dropdown
are basically fruitless... because if you have 200 customer records... what the heck kinda
drop down list or Grid would really support that?


Would you agree a real world web app would have a textfield / search command button that queries a
SQL Server database?


... those helpful little videos have cute drop down lists populated on VB.NET web forms with for loops and
stuff, what real corporation would have something like that? It would be SQL / recordset searches / queries, right?

I'm really very knew to VB.NET/SQL, and have been tasked with programming a VB forms to SQL portal for a company.

Neat learning experience --- which is cool and everything ---but I'm really running out of gas with those little
"tutorials" and need some real webform functionality.


oh well...

I'll keep on plugging away!!
later
paul

I do not find ASP.Net limited or difficult.

As for your "200 customer records", try displaying them in a gridview with paging. You could show 10 or 20 per page.

I totally agree with you, eclipsed4utoo!

ASP.Net (including AJAX) is very powerfull, but none the less i guess Silverlight will replace some parts of ASP.Net.
I actually working with ASP.Net too, and i love it, not only because i came form a .Net language to ASP.Net, it s pretty
easy and has got many usefull features. By the way i m learning Silverlight, it s pretty cool too, but it s not as easy to learn
as ASP.Net (my opnion). I think in the future i will mostly develop website/webapps in silverlight, but still keep building ASP.Net
webparts.

regards

Ben

EDIT: btw. you can edit your topic and add a poll, i guess that would be interesting

This post has been edited by b.ihde: 26 Jun, 2009 - 12:25 PM