ASP.NET help

cotton31 · 3 Aug 2010 at 17:31

Hi,

I'm looking at creating my first project in ASP.NET.

What I'm trying to do is allow the user to a enter a search term into an input box, and return a list of matching results from a database, in the form of an unordered list.

I'm completely new to ASP.NET - I have my page knocked up in HTML/CSS, but have no idea how to implement the above.

Can somebody ponit me in the right direction, or to a site that may help?

Cheers,

lokkers · 3 Aug 2010 at 18:13

Might be a silly question, but you do know a .NET language right?

cotton31 · 4 Aug 2010 at 00:12

I've done a little bit of VB.NET during my time a college a few years ago, but these days I hear C# is the way to go?

I pick up things pretty quickly so that's why I'm looking for some tutorial/examples from you guys which help me learn and do what I want

lokkers · 4 Aug 2010 at 06:50

Ok good, that's a start. Personally I'm a C# man, but VB.NET is perfectly acceptable.

I would start by learning the language (VB or C#), data access techniques and suchlike (I'd guess you'regoing to need to be accessing a database for this query, so a little SQL might help too?). I was a windows developer before I became a web developer, so I already had those sussed before I picked up ASP.NET. I actually taught myself ASP.NET initially by reading Pro ASP.NET (Apress) and spending time on w3schools. You can also check out the ASP.NET site @ www.ASP.net for videos etc. ASP.NET is a great framework to start off in, and the basics are pretty simple.

However with this simplicity comes a price - the markup sometimes ain't pretty. if you are more comfortable with something closer to the metal, check out ASP.NET MVC.

ultim · 4 Aug 2010 at 21:37

http://www.asp.net/general/videos

Izi · 4 Aug 2010 at 23:05

ASP.NET abstracts HTML controls in to its own set of control tags.

If MVC was about when I started i would have started with that, as it is less confusing because of the lack of abstraction of controls - at least to me.

Try ASP.NET MVC some good tutorials here http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials

cotton31 · 6 Aug 2010 at 09:45

Cheers guys, I've had a look at the tutorials.

Quick question, if I'm learning from scratch, is it best for me to dive in with MVC or learn WebForms first?

Thanks,

!bluetonic! · 6 Aug 2010 at 16:26

For your OP example, you only need 1 aspx page. Save MVC for another time.

Goksly · 6 Aug 2010 at 17:34

Would defo learn webforms first. Takes a while to get used to life cycle / stateless environment etc!