David,

To answer your questions, I have been a programmer for over 30 years, all 
COBOL and mainframe, and the last 15 years on IBM AS/400 ( AKA  i-series 
machines.)  I have been doing web programming on IBM's AS/400 boxes about 
6 years and just this past month I was responsible for moving our 
corporate intranet site from an AS/400 running Java, JSP,  and Websphere 
to a Dell server running ASP and IIS ver 5.0..and a  SQL server DB... A 
big jump!!  Fortunately for me Wrox has several books on SQl, ASP, and now 
.NET application development. My bookshelves look like a Barnes and Noble/ 
Wrox press warehouse...  I ran into webmatrix by visiting the ASP.NET 
website, and read your freebie book, and have been thrilled with 
WebMatrix, although we will be getting Visual Studio also .

 David's Book is one of the best I  have seen and believe me I buy a lot 
of programming books. I like his sense of humor, the code examples work, and are well explained - most books are weak on that. Since
I am new to IIS, MSDE,  the 
supporting documentation on install and set up is CRITICAL. I have 
recommended this book to 5 other programmers here and I have setup a 
website on our application development IIS server with all the sample code 
etc. webmatrix and we have SQL server setup for the sample DB's etc. so we 
work on the code during the day as time permits and also from home via 
VPN.... I would like to see a follow on book that used more in depth on 
designing and deployment of complete applications... using web matrix. 
Microsoft Press has a book called Designing Microsoft ASP.NET applications 
by Douglas J. Reilly it is a fair book but like your books better.) 

Although the  Microsoft webmatrix team seems swamped right now with ver 
2.0 of ASP.NET  I check every day for any word on the next release of 
webmatrix.  Web Matrix fills a very important niche and Wrox books for 
professional programmers like me  in the mainframe world who are trying to 
pick up the skill set necessary to build modern applications using IDE's 
like WebMatrix.,but who don't  want to spend  big $$ to buy Visual studio 
right off the bat just to get going...


Best Regards.



Gary Hopkins
Project Lead Net Technology
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1. RE: Chapter 9 Displaying Data MXDATAGRID proble
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Subject: RE: Chapter 9 Displaying Data MXDATAGRID proble
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From: David Barnes <DavidB@w...>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:57:31 -0000
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Hi Gary

I was the commissioning editor on Beginning Dynamic Websites. I'm glad you
like the book. :)

Thanks for the tip... I'm sure it'll come in handy if other readers email
support with similar problems.

If you don't mind me asking, what made you buy the book? Have you done any
programming before, are are you just starting? Either way, I hope you're
enjoying Web Matrix.

Feel free to email me off the list if you prefer... it'd be really helpful
to hear your views.

Best regards

David Barnes
Editor, Wrox Press

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Hopkins [mailto:gary.a.hopkins@l...]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 7:48 PM
> To: ASP.NET Web Matrix
> Subject: [aspx_web_matrix] Chapter 9 Displaying Data 
> MXDATAGRID problems
> 
> 
> My First post:
> 
> I am working through David Sussman's Beginning Dynamic Websites with 
> ASP.NET Web Matrix ( a very excellent book) ... in chapter 
> nine you build 
> a page using web matrix's MXDataGrid... My problem was with 
> the try it out 
> on page 280... I could get the Images to show when i used the 
> path for the 
> web matrix files on my local machine - that is in the database field 
> CoverImageURL contained "c:\webmatrix\cam\images\noinspiration.gif" 
> 
> ( I have a remote IIS server running with a virtual site 
> setup for this 
> book. So I can test locally and with a "real life" scenario 
> where the .net 
> server is IIS on a remote box) 
> 
> HOWEVER when i tried to run MXDataGrid.aspx on the remote 
> server I got 
> application compiler errors because of line 2
> 
> <%@ Register TagPrefix="wmx" 
> Namespace="Microsoft.Saturn.Framework.Web.UI" 
> Assembly="Microsoft.Saturn.Framework, Version=0.5.464.0, 
> Culture=neutral, 
> PublicKeyToken=6f763c9966660626" %>
> 
> my server did not know about this namespace - Sooo the 
> solution was to 
> copy all the webmatrix dll's from my local system into the 
> /bin directory 
> on the remote system and voila!  everything was cool.  I also had to 
> change the image page to the relative root of the server to 
> now show ....
> CoverImageURL = "/Cam/images/noinspiration.gif"
> 
> hope this helps anyone with this problem....
> 



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