Hi guys,

 

How's it going?  

 

I was wondering, what kind of work are you all doing now?  Is it mostly 

ASP work, have you moved over to ASP.NET yet, what key areas are you 

concentrating on and what information would help you do your job most?

 

I would like to know this.  It would seriously help me produce articles 

that will be helpful to everybody and I am genuinely interested.

 

I have programmed commerical websites myself in Perl and HTML, and that 

involved key areas such as online forums and mailing functions.  WHat are 

you doing?

 

I would be interested in knowing what you ASP guys are doing now.  Would 

you mind doing that?

 

If you don't want to talk here, why not email me at vickiep@w...?

 

Thanks,

Vickie.

ASPToday Lead Editor.

 

Vickie,



Personally, I'm developing web-based content management systems. Along the

same lines as Spectre, Paper thin or Vignette, only nowhere near the

proposterous price that vignette is!



My company has bearly looked at asp.net. I'm a bit of a stick-in-the-mud

when it comes to changing my ways especially around programming languages,

and i'm yet to see proof of asp.net making any sort of impact on the

blue-chip business world. Once i see evidence of Asp.net's usefullness, i

might switch over.



However my asp is probably my least favorite language at the moment. Taking

the top of the leader board are PHP and ColdFusion.





--------------------------

Dave Cranwell

Torchbox Ltd

david@t...

tel: (+44) 1608 811 870

mob: (+44) 7760 438 708

http://www.torchbox.com

why do you opt for PHP and COldFusion?



-----Original Message-----

From: David [mailto:david@t...]

Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 1:43 PM

To: ASPToday Discuss

Subject: [asptoday_discuss] Re: Tell us about your projects





Vickie,



Personally, I'm developing web-based content management systems. Along the

same lines as Spectre, Paper thin or Vignette, only nowhere near the

proposterous price that vignette is!



My company has bearly looked at asp.net. I'm a bit of a stick-in-the-mud

when it comes to changing my ways especially around programming languages,

and i'm yet to see proof of asp.net making any sort of impact on the

blue-chip business world. Once i see evidence of Asp.net's usefullness, i

might switch over.



However my asp is probably my least favorite language at the moment. Taking

the top of the leader board are PHP and ColdFusion.





--------------------------

Dave Cranwell

Torchbox Ltd

Hi Vickie



I'm working currently on ASP 3.0. I also look closely at every development

on ASP.net.



Well my disappointment come more from XML technologies.



Still searching for the 'golden' application to demonstrate that XML can be

the killer app

Of this century !



Maybe I'm wrong but in term of database development, ASP rocks and building

an XSL stylesheet is not really an happy task.



For ASP.net I received the beta 2, but didn't found a time to install it.



The beta 1 was a catastrophe for me, because the product was too slow,

buggy, and obviously required too much research time that most of

programmers we don't have ;-)



Despite the general idea that we must 'shoot' Microsoft, I'm happy with

their platform and language and find ASP Today very useful, specifically as

a resource center.



EIS/EDELMAN

Pascal Leloup

Technical Manager

dir: + 353 (1) 678 9333

cell: + 353 (1) 86 8540694

pascal.leloup@e...

www.eisite.com 







-----Original Message-----

From: vickie [mailto:vickiep@w...] 

Sent: 12 October 2001 14:31

To: ASPToday Discuss

Subject: [asptoday_discuss] Tell us about your projects





Hi guys,

 

How's it going?  

 

I was wondering, what kind of work are you all doing now?  Is it mostly 

ASP work, have you moved over to ASP.NET yet, what key areas are you 

concentrating on and what information would help you do your job most?

 

I would like to know this.  It would seriously help me produce articles 

that will be helpful to everybody and I am genuinely interested.

 

I have programmed commerical websites myself in Perl and HTML, and that 

involved key areas such as online forums and mailing functions.  WHat are 

you doing?

 

I would be interested in knowing what you ASP guys are doing now.  Would 

you mind doing that?

 

If you don't want to talk here, why not email me at vickiep@w...?

 

Thanks,

Vickie.

ASPToday Lead Editor.

Do you mean my personal preferences or the company policy?



Policy-wise, its a combination of what we tender, what the clients require,

what is most beneficial to the clients current system, which is a better

suited language for the brief, etc.



Personally, i prefer php because its its proximity to C, and I like Cold

Fusion because it makes light work out of some things that other languages

make a total hash off. I find that Coldfusions reduces the line-count by at

least half!



--------------------------

Dave Cranwell

Torchbox Ltd

david@t...

tel: (+44) 1608 811 870

mob: (+44) 7760 438 708

http://www.torchbox.com



----- Original Message -----

From: "Quinton Sheppard" <quintons@k...>

To: "ASPToday Discuss" <asptoday_discuss@p...>

Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 3:11 PM

Subject: [asptoday_discuss] Re: Tell us about your projects





> why do you opt for PHP and COldFusion?

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: David [mailto:david@t...]

> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 1:43 PM

> To: ASPToday Discuss

> Subject: [asptoday_discuss] Re: Tell us about your projects

>

>

> Vickie,

>

> Personally, I'm developing web-based content management systems. Along the

> same lines as Spectre, Paper thin or Vignette, only nowhere near the

> proposterous price that vignette is!

>

> My company has bearly looked at asp.net. I'm a bit of a stick-in-the-mud

> when it comes to changing my ways especially around programming languages,

> and i'm yet to see proof of asp.net making any sort of impact on the

> blue-chip business world. Once i see evidence of Asp.net's usefullness, i

> might switch over.

>

> However my asp is probably my least favorite language at the moment.

Taking

> the top of the leader board are PHP and ColdFusion.

>

Hi Vickie



I mainly develop content management systems, extranets, online communities 

with lots of personalisation features. Online training modules and 

applications for booking training courses. I am still on ASP, have been 

meaning to go to ASPNet (simply in order to make more money as a 

consultant - I spent the last year rationalising my ASP dev so my 

production system is like greased lightening so I am not about to move 

over for the sake of it) for a while but have been too busy I guess. The 

way I see it, the ASPNet stuff will help with creating more manageable 

code, but that's not always a selling point to clients. The XML and SOAP 

based architectures can be achieved with current technology anyway. 



Regarding articles, anything which shows innovative techniques which can 

help people develop more scalable and manageable web applications. 

Especially ones which concentrate on 'best practices'.



Thanks

Dave

Hi;



I am embroiled in trying to convert a medium sized Access 2000/SQL Server

system to an ASP.NET WebForms application. I believe that I have all the

machinery needed for page navigation and for access to values on "buried" 

pages working ok. Now I am down to the grunt work of converting thousands

and thousands of lines of VBA to C#. (I know, one is not forced to convert

to C#; but I want to.) For each module that I need to tackle, most of the 

syntactic conversion is taken care of by a bunch of editing macros that I 

have written for the purpose. However, those macros do not come close to

actually parsing VB and doing the translation on a solid syntactic

basis. 



Does anyone know of a utility for translating a decent subset of VBA to 

C# in a more systematic manner? (I would not expect it to handle ADODB, 

but it ought to be able to take care of things like select case and 

mid$.)



Lou



-----Original Message-----

From: vickie [mailto:vickiep@w...] 

Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 1:31 PM

To: ASPToday Discuss

Subject: [asptoday_discuss] Tell us about your projects





Hi guys,

 

How's it going?  

 

I was wondering, what kind of work are you all doing now?  Is it mostly 

ASP work, have you moved over to ASP.NET yet, what key areas are you 

concentrating on and what information would help you do your job most?

 

I would like to know this.  It would seriously help me produce articles 

that will be helpful to everybody and I am genuinely interested.

 

I have programmed commerical websites myself in Perl and HTML, and that 

involved key areas such as online forums and mailing functions.  WHat

are 

you doing?

 

I would be interested in knowing what you ASP guys are doing now.  Would



you mind doing that?

 

If you don't want to talk here, why not email me at vickiep@w...?

 

Thanks,

Vickie.

ASPToday Lead Editor.

Hey Vickie, 



I am developing an entire web/intranet site for a medium size furniture 

chain.  I am handling all aspects of server administration and setup, 

database development as well as coding.  I have not even thought about 

ASP.Net for 2 reasons:  1)  ASP 3.0  has all the functionality that I need 

and 2)  I would rather stick to things that are familiar (given my primative 

coding skills).  



I think what really helps is getting "real" problems to analyze and "real" 

solutions to those problems.  II get more out of this discussion group than I 

do from the 3 or so ASP references sitting on my bookshelf!



Hope this helps.



Jason Zeller

Home Furniture Company

Email:  zcoffeeman@a...

Still working with ASP... Corporations take their time upgrading all of

their technology to the latest. Because I work at a bank, that situation

gets even more complicated because of inside security measures, etc.



It took us a lot of time to just test out Win 2000 Pro on two desktops

inside the company...



Anyway, It's still all ASP, COM, VB, SQL Server, etc. However, I am working

with the DOTNET technology when I am @ home.







-----Original Message-----

From: vickie [mailto:vickiep@w...]

Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 9:31 AM

To: ASPToday Discuss

Subject: [asptoday_discuss] Tell us about your projects





Hi guys,

 

How's it going?  

 

I was wondering, what kind of work are you all doing now?  Is it mostly 

ASP work, have you moved over to ASP.NET yet, what key areas are you 

concentrating on and what information would help you do your job most?

 

I would like to know this.  It would seriously help me produce articles 

that will be helpful to everybody and I am genuinely interested.

 

I have programmed commerical websites myself in Perl and HTML, and that 

involved key areas such as online forums and mailing functions.  WHat are 

you doing?

 

I would be interested in knowing what you ASP guys are doing now.  Would 

you mind doing that?

 

If you don't want to talk here, why not email me at vickiep@w...?

 

Thanks,

Vickie.

ASPToday Lead Editor.