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Freakish_05

Freakish_05

Freakish_05

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Hi All,

Looking for some general direction really.

I've been dabbling in various coding languages this year and I'm a bit of a 'jack of all trades' but the time has come to choose the Microsoft or Open Source platform with a view to making a living in the future.

Am I right in thinking that coding principles in ASP.NET could be transferred to VB.NET to make desktop applications.

General comments saught :)

Regards,
Freakish_05
 
ASP.NET every time, C# though, not VB.NET. You'll have much better options when it comes to getting a job.
 
Freakish_05 said:
Am I right in thinking that coding principles in ASP.NET could be transferred to VB.NET to make desktop applications.
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Yes.

ASP.NET is very powerful. The .NET framework is vast and the tools Microsoft provide are second to none. I could pull data from SQL Server, Oracle, Access, etc and whack into a gridview in a few minutes.
 
Career wise I would consider looking at .net

Have a look around in your area to see whats popular for developer roles. Chances are that most companies nowadays but not always tend to favour C#.
 
ASP.NET is a hell of a lot more expensive for hosting due to the prices of Linux hosting compared to windows, but if that’s not a problem I would defiantly go with .NET.
 
Either/Both. Good developers are platform independent. .NET will give you more of a chance in the job market, however.
 
Thanks all for the replies.

I'm currently downloading the .NET SDK from Microsoft (350mb at 10kb:eek:).

Anyone know if ASP.NET can be used with MySQL? Adding MS SQL Server onto web hosting seems to put the price up.....a LOT lol.

Regards,
Freakish_05
 
Freakish_05 said:
Thanks all for the replies.

I'm currently downloading the .NET SDK from Microsoft (350mb at 10kb:eek:).

Anyone know if ASP.NET can be used with MySQL? Adding MS SQL Server onto web hosting seems to put the price up.....a LOT lol.

Regards,
Freakish_05
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I would personally create your own web server at home with MS SQL MDSE. Unless you are looking to deploy a website for public use.

If you want proper SQL hosted databases it is going to cost a bit more.
 
Don't bother with the .net SDK, just download the free and excellent Web Developer Express from Microsoft. It can install documentation and MS SQL 2005 Express for you too and has everything you need for asp.net in any language.

asp.net using vb.net is my favourite but I never win in arguments over the use of vb or c#!
 
.Net is a good platform. I've never liked the architecture of ASP.net much, but next year there'll be an official MS MVC framework which should be much cleaner.
 
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