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Hamed
Hello
I have employed as a developer in a software company that its team uses
FoxPro / VB 6.0 / VC++ 6.0 as the developing tools and newly is going to
migrate to VS.NET. There is a project modified that is to upgrade a big,
more than 100,000 lines DOS based program developed by FoxPro 2.x to .NET
platform. The design is as previous and the implementation will be
reprogrammed. As a duty in my job I should find an answer about the
following question:
There seems to be two options in .NET to develop the program: Win Form and
Web Form. The question is if we want to redesign the application as a multi
tire program which front-end is best to choose so that we have less problems
in developing the Data Access tire. Is it better to choose Web Form and use
wrapper classes exist in ASP.NET environment or we can choose to use Win
Form?
There are some facts:
1 - Windows forms have more flexibility in view and effects and users prefer
to have a Windows based interface but it is not a "must to be done" rule.
2 - Our programming team has developed VB and VFP applications and they are
more familiar with VB 6.0 than IIS, ASP and VBScript. The company can hire
some web programmers but prefer not to do it if possible
3 - They are not familiar with XML at all and I am the only person that
knows this technology. It seems I myself should develop the Data Access tire
and I am new in .NET technology but have developed several ADO based ASP
applications
4 - The new application should be able to use different data engines such as
Access, VFP, MS SQL Server and Oracle.
It seems developing a multi tire application using windows forms is highly
dependent on web services and xml communications. Using web forms as a front
end have a little flexibility but at least all data access layer will be in
the server using ADO.NET wrapper classes those are the same as ADO. But it
seems using windows forms means that we should use "Dataset" and ".NET
Framework Data Provider" that is a topic I am new in. Microsoft says either
using web forms or windows forms, there is no difference in data access
layer but I don't feel so. Am I right? What are the benefits and drawbacks
of web form and windows form at the layer of Data Access?
Thanks in advance
Hamed…
I have employed as a developer in a software company that its team uses
FoxPro / VB 6.0 / VC++ 6.0 as the developing tools and newly is going to
migrate to VS.NET. There is a project modified that is to upgrade a big,
more than 100,000 lines DOS based program developed by FoxPro 2.x to .NET
platform. The design is as previous and the implementation will be
reprogrammed. As a duty in my job I should find an answer about the
following question:
There seems to be two options in .NET to develop the program: Win Form and
Web Form. The question is if we want to redesign the application as a multi
tire program which front-end is best to choose so that we have less problems
in developing the Data Access tire. Is it better to choose Web Form and use
wrapper classes exist in ASP.NET environment or we can choose to use Win
Form?
There are some facts:
1 - Windows forms have more flexibility in view and effects and users prefer
to have a Windows based interface but it is not a "must to be done" rule.
2 - Our programming team has developed VB and VFP applications and they are
more familiar with VB 6.0 than IIS, ASP and VBScript. The company can hire
some web programmers but prefer not to do it if possible
3 - They are not familiar with XML at all and I am the only person that
knows this technology. It seems I myself should develop the Data Access tire
and I am new in .NET technology but have developed several ADO based ASP
applications
4 - The new application should be able to use different data engines such as
Access, VFP, MS SQL Server and Oracle.
It seems developing a multi tire application using windows forms is highly
dependent on web services and xml communications. Using web forms as a front
end have a little flexibility but at least all data access layer will be in
the server using ADO.NET wrapper classes those are the same as ADO. But it
seems using windows forms means that we should use "Dataset" and ".NET
Framework Data Provider" that is a topic I am new in. Microsoft says either
using web forms or windows forms, there is no difference in data access
layer but I don't feel so. Am I right? What are the benefits and drawbacks
of web form and windows form at the layer of Data Access?
Thanks in advance
Hamed…