help...

life_s Ng · September 12th, 2003, 02:44 AM

hi, im going to write a LAN application, its about
retrieve some info from the terminal server's database. i wondering which programming i should use... i prefer asp.net, and i want to use it, but "some1" seems like not agree with that... and i cant get some convincible reasons to psycho him... any1 have any idea to let me do him? thanks

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Life's Ng

planoie · September 12th, 2003, 09:22 AM

A. If you are writing a client application that you want to execute on the desktop you can't use ASP.Net. You'll have to build a windows forms or console application using which ever language you prefer.

B. What exactly are you trying to do?

Peter

life_s Ng · September 12th, 2003, 10:16 PM

im sorry, i just need to create a form that can retrieve information from a terminal that running in a LAN... this form can either execute on desktop or pda using http...

i like ASP.NET more and more as time pass by, and i think ASP.NET is more advantages than VB6... but i just cant tell him what is the advantages...

planoie · September 15th, 2003, 08:55 AM

Well, I would say it's kind of hard to compare VB6 to ASP.Net. That's like comparing VB6 to ASP. One is client execution and one is web server. It sounds like you need to be building something for client execution. So you need to consider VB6 or VB.Net.

When you say "terminal", what do you mean? Are you just talking about another machine on your LAN? If you are going to build a HTTP app on a PDA then you will most certainly need that "terminal" to be running a web server. This application begins to sound more and more like the perfect application of a VB.Net client app that talks with a web service (even if it's only using the LAN) to get it's data. Something like that becomes very easy to build with .Net.

Peter

life_s Ng · September 15th, 2003, 08:29 PM

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quote:Originally posted by planoie
Well, I would say it's kind of hard to compare VB6 to ASP.Net. That's like comparing VB6 to ASP. One is client execution and one is web server. It sounds like you need to be building something for client execution. So you need to consider VB6 or VB.Net.

When you say "terminal", what do you mean? Are you just talking about another machine on your LAN? If you are going to build a HTTP app on a PDA then you will most certainly need that "terminal" to be running a web server. This application begins to sound more and more like the perfect application of a VB.Net client app that talks with a web service (even if it's only using the LAN) to get it's data. Something like that becomes very easy to build with .Net.

Peter

yeah, thanks Peter. the terminal is a server on the LAN. 1 more ques... "very easy to build with .Net." do u mean with ASP.NET....?

best regards
life's Ng

planoie · September 16th, 2003, 02:21 PM

No, I mean with any .Net. Everything's easy to build in .Net be it a client app or a web app. Particularly if you want to use SOAP with a web service. You could build the web service on this web server on your LAN, then use SOAP to access the data in the client app. It would be very neat, plus it's fast to do. If you aren't familiar with SOAP do a little research on it, there's lots you can do with it. I haven't working with it a WHOLE lot, but I can see it's power and potential.

Peter