Useful Links re: e-commerce VB ASP

The design in the Beginning E-Commerce with Visual Basic, ASP, SQL Server 7.0 and MTS book by Matthew Reynolds is a very “correct one”.

It is too bad that it didn’t make through the WROX acquisition.

Data Store: SQL Server
Business Logic: VB DLL
Presentation Layer: ASP

Now everything is .NET. Granted, the namespace (gotten from C++) construct is an improvement for VB, but not every VB project is 1,000,000+ lines where this feature is helpful within a large programming group.

So, if you agree with me and you don’t want to learn every programming language on the planet, then where are good resources for SQL/VB/ASP development?

WROX books are pretty good and some are outstanding. Nevertheless, the above is a masked way of saying many of them are a waste (ASP databases…). OK, maybe not but they do stick all the business logic where it doesn’t belong (SQL/ASP).

When you have done as much searching of the web for SQL/VB/ASP and find this post; post in this ASP E-commerce forum and we might get something good going.

Here are some examples:
1) This is a web site where someone adapted the book to a real site.
http://www.questerpress.com/about.asp
2) See some of my posts. I started to post today.

I think that the best answers for software development are an inclusive combination of tools. The one to explore here is SQL/VB/ASP. My background is SQL Server, back to pre-NT. I use to teach for Microsoft (Microsoft University). If you ever took a certified class, one of five other people, probably trained the instructor. Assuming the instructor had the original rigorous training, that group of five would have included me. It was a small community back then.

The technical release of SQL 4.21 I attended in Washington D.C. was a group of 10 people. 2000 people attended the technical release in Los Angeles for SQL 7.

BTW, I'm motivated to get "a few more miles" out of my Visual Studio 6.