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Creating Dynamic Web Sites with .Net and Dreamweaver MX

Now I'm confused.

November 21, 2002 by Owen Eastwick

I'm looking to make the transition from ASP/VBScript to ASP.net. Naturally I want to use the best possible variation and implement best practices from the outset. So which language should I choose VB.net or C#?

Here it states: C# is worth learning as it typically performs 10x faster than VB.Net.

However in this article: http://www.aspfaqs.com/aspfaqs/ShowFAQ.asp?FAQID=185, it states:
What language is the "best" language choice? If you are a VB wizard, should you take the time to learn C# or continue to use VB.NET? Are C# ASP.NET pages "faster" than VB.NET ASP.NET pages? These are questions that you may find yourself asking, especially when you're just starting to delve into .NET. Fortunately the answer is simple: there is no "best" language. All .NET languages use, at their root, functionality from the set of classes provided by the .NET Framework. Therefore, everything you can do in VB.NET you can do in C#, and vice-a-versa. The only differences among languages is merely a syntactical one.

The two articles are completely contradictory - so which is right?

RE: Now I'm confused.

November 21, 2002 by George Petrov

Hi Owen, I have to agree with you as both C# and VB.NET code gets compiled to the CLI (Common Language Infrastructure) they generated almost identical CLI code. So they really run at the approx same speed. I think David had it a bit wrong in its article. In the past this was true for C++ and VB - but not anymore in .NET

RE: RE: Now I'm confused.

November 21, 2002 by Owen Eastwick

Thank you George, that's a relief, while I believe there are still many differences I imagine that moving to VB.net from ASP/VBScript is a slightly smaller step than from ASP/VBScipt to C#.net.

RE: RE: Thanks for the tut. My dreamweaverMX still is not working with .net

December 3, 2002 by Matthew David

Hazelnut,

I just saw your question. I want to make sure that I have the following informtion correct:

you are running windows 2000
you have installed .NET 1.0
you are running MDAC 2.6+
you have Dreamweaver configured to develop for ASP.NET

As with ASP the .NET world can be a huggling act. I just want to make sure that everything is correct.

Matt

RE: RE: RE: Thanks for the tut. My dreamweaverMX still is not working with .net

December 3, 2002 by Hazelnut Krishna

Matt, Thanks for responding, yes I have all on your list set up and running. .Net 1.0, MDAC 2.7, and dreamweaver set to ASP.NET VB running on Win2k. I did just install MDAC 2.7 to see if that made a difference, no, I currently have exactly the same problems as I noted above.

Nice tutorial, but i've got a problem with Win xp pro

December 13, 2002 by bjorn heijmen

Everthing works for so far but when i will connect a database (access) i get a empty database in my (database)window. So the Dataset is also empty :-(
Is it a bug of Win XP pro. how/where can i fix this.

and i get a error when i test my database "HTTP Error Code 405 Method Not Allow"
where can i fix this.

Can you help me?

RE: Nice tutorial, but i've got a problem with Win xp pro

December 15, 2002 by Matthew David

I was having the same problem. The solution I applied was to download and install the Dreamweaver Contribute plugin (http://exchange.macromedia.com/dreamweaver) and this added some patches and fixes to Dreamweaver.

Try it out and see if that fixes everything for you.

Matt

Problems with Virtual Directories

January 14, 2003 by Alexander DiMauro

Does anyone know how to fix the problem with virtual directories and ASP.NET? Whenever I try this tutorial I get a parser error saying it can't find the assembly DreamweaverCtrls, but it is there in the bin directory. The problem goes away when I stop using a virtual folder for the web site. I go to the Macromedia site, and can't find anything in the help about it. There is one article where they mention this specific parser error, but it is in reference to when you haven't yet uploaded DreamweaverCtrls to the bin directory.

The link to the help file is http://www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/ts/documents/dreamweaverctrls_dll.htm

Event handler and validator

February 6, 2005 by sepsep sep

I m new to both asp.net and dreamweaver, and am developing an online teaching system. constructing interface and some basic controls are great in DMX. But when I came to form valdiations, I am stuck and came across and an article that mention about DMX not supporting webforms and have their own format. what does this mean actually?

from most of the asp.net books samples, code and application logic ( like event handler) are separated nicely. I noticed it's totally different in DMX.
where can I put a simple subroutine eg :

<Script Runat = "server">
sub Button_Click(s As Object, e As EVentArgs)
session("name") = rs("name")
End Sub
</End Script>

How can i include the RequiredFieldValidator in the code ?

I have one month to finish of all..and the my application should include page search and forum. Is it possible to do it in DMX? or should I change into WebMatrix or Vs.net ?

Sorry if these questions are too trivial, but I really want (and need) to get things right from the start .. >_<

Thanks alot for any help ... *bow..