Database storage and updation

07Raghav · February 19th, 2013, 09:41 PM

Hi Imar,

All i have learnt about asp.net and websites is from your book.

1) Wanted to know if there are methods of updating the databsae without login controls for seeing many a sites with no login page but the data is constantly being updated.
e.g. www.mono-1.com

2) Am bit confused about how to have the blog in mine site. Am using db to store data but the problem i face is their web address says www.mono-1.com/us/page/2/ and when clicking on older posts it says http://www.mono-1.com/us/page/3/

but when a post is clicked the post opens with following address http://www.mono-1.com/us/kristoffer-returns-to-uptown/

I understand how to fetch the post

but when showing the contents of blog how shall one store them.
[Shall we store 4-5 posts a page]

To ma understanding paging is not being used for then how will we change the address in address-bar.

Please do help/ searched a lot on google/ and stackoverflow but with no outcome.

Thanks a lot.

Imar · February 19th, 2013, 10:09 PM

Hi there,

You don't necessarily need a Login link to update a web site. It could be at a known url such as /Admin that then requires you to log in, it could be a separate domain (e.g. admin.domainname.com) and it could even be a separate application that publishes data.

The paging URLs you refer to *could* but don't have to be ASP.NET MVC (I didn't look at that site). With MVC you can relate URLs to incoming parameters. So something like /Pages/3 could be a method called Pages that takes the page index (3) as a parameter and then goes out to the database to fetch the "third" page.

Does this help?

Imar

07Raghav · April 10th, 2013, 04:26 PM

hi Imar,

Spent past few days going through mvc vs. web forms. Quite a bit confused to go deeper in web-forms or start learning mvc.
Also spent in time looking into umbraco and elgg but finally came to conclude that should stick to proper framework.

Aah and found no book [probably looking for a walk through book just like yours. you have left me quite dependent.. ha ha ha]

Please do suggest any reference or just anything which can introduce me to mvc.

Imar · April 11th, 2013, 03:09 AM

Hi there,

I can' really recommend anything. There's a great book on MVC from Steve Sanderson that I can recommend. However, it's not for people new to MVC. For that topic, I don't know any book references. I assume Wrox has a Beginning MVC that might be of help?

Cheers,

Imar