peterbraves
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I have had a fair bit of experience developing a few web sites using Front Page 2000. I began learning ASP3 a couple of years ago but had to abandon my studies due to other commitments.<BR><BR>I now want to resurrect my studies of ASP and of course I realise that things have moved on.<BR><BR>(Q1) ASP.NET appears to be the language that I should spend my time on but can anyone please tell me if there are any self-study books available (like SAMS "Teach yourself ASP3.0 in 21 days").<BR><BR>(Q2) Also it is all well and good learning a language but what do I need to run ASP.NET on? I was running my ASP on the IIS on our NT4 server.<BR><BR>(Q3) Finally, I now have MS Office XP Developer that includes the latest version of FrontPage although I haven't run it yet. Is there anything in the Office XP package that will assist me.<BR><BR>Anyone's help would be appreciated.I have (and read) Sams ASP.NET 21 Day book and its very good. Also Sams .NET Tips Tutorials and Code. I learn slow. These are good books. I also battled through Wrox Pro ASP.NET. A good book but more for reference. After a while on this .NET thing you seem to work out that its not just one thing, but sort of the place all the vague parts are heading for. Its great to be able to program on the the server with the object type thing. <BR>All you need to run the show is the ASP.NET stuff from MS. Easy<BR>and no problems. If you got W2000 with IIS5 its easy. <BR>Never used Front page, but this new Visual Studio7 thing is the go. VS7 has all the easy to do stuff, and Notepad is the go when yo want to write for real.<BR>Good luck<BR>Just like to add my two pennies worth. I bought wrox asp.net beginnerers but may take back and swap 4 pro book.<BR><BR>(1)I cant believe how much more difficult it is to connect to a db with .net than asp<BR>(2)looks more like javascript,xml bundled to me than asp now<BR>I'm with you on the wrox "asp.net for beginners". It really is not worth the money. There's about 100 pages of useful stuff and the rest is garbage. Plus its full of mistakes not covered in their website errata section. Very disappointing.<BR>Also, its written by a bunch of different authors (common wrox practice these days) and therefore the code and structure jumps from one style to another - no consistency or flow to the material. Difficult to follow when you're trying to learn a new language.(1)I use and recommend WROX: Professional ASP.NET - Also, sorry to be pedantic but..... ASP & ASP.NET are not Languages, they are frameworks, VB.net, c# etc are languages that can be used to develope applications under the .net framework. It might seem like a small point, but (especially) when you are learning, it helps to get some of the terminology correct.<BR><BR>(2) From what I (think that) I've learnt, ASP.net needs the .net framework to be installed on you server (WIn2000 or XP - NOT NT or 98) and is available from www.microsoft.com/net<BR><BR>(3)Don't know, I've been using N++ (notepad!!)- which is good for helping to get a good undestanding of the nitty-gritty without Wizards and Assistants doing all of the work for you.<BR><BR>Good LuckOkay, here's my 2-cents worth. I really like the TextPad tool instead of Notepad. TextPad allows you to customize the appearance of your code and has major Search and Replace (or Destroy, if you're not carful!!) capability.<BR><BR>It's about $24 (depending on exchange rate) and available from http://www.textpad.com website.