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Hi
I'll be blunt: I'm a newbie to .Net, and a lot of the concepts can be
confusing to me at times
So basically, I'll start off with a little intro:
I'm fairly proficient with "classic" ASP VBS applications development, but
I'm attracted to .Net from all the hype about how "its better than PHP"
etc... along with improved speed and other performance enhancements, but I'm
integreiged most by these so-called "controls"
Myself, I am a W3C Web-Standards Evangelist, and after reviewing the output
code from these controls, I'm not exactly impressed (non-semantic markup,
tables for layout, IE is considered "better" than Gecko, excessive
javascript, breaking the user experience, etc...)
So basically...
How is using a Server/User Control better than writing some VB code to
define the XHTML 1.1 output (note that I didn't say HTML3.02) and then
putting that in an <!--#include--> ?
And moreover... how do I write custom controls? (I do own VisualStudio .Net
2003 Academic (ie: Professional with an extra CD)) Because I'm planning of
writiing a pretty complex web-application (a hybrid community/gallery site,
something along the same lines as DeviantArt.com, only with less pathetic
manga artists who rant on their LiveJournals and read Megatokyo all day long)
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Anyway, so I'm basically interested in:
a) Learning what .Net is "all about"
b) How to write custom controls (preferably in VB)
c) ...And use them effectivly in an application
d) And why using .Net in this case (see my digression above) would be
preferable over, say, PHP5 (not 4) or "classic" ASP3.0
Thanks
-A Newbie
I'll be blunt: I'm a newbie to .Net, and a lot of the concepts can be
confusing to me at times
So basically, I'll start off with a little intro:
I'm fairly proficient with "classic" ASP VBS applications development, but
I'm attracted to .Net from all the hype about how "its better than PHP"
etc... along with improved speed and other performance enhancements, but I'm
integreiged most by these so-called "controls"
Myself, I am a W3C Web-Standards Evangelist, and after reviewing the output
code from these controls, I'm not exactly impressed (non-semantic markup,
tables for layout, IE is considered "better" than Gecko, excessive
javascript, breaking the user experience, etc...)
So basically...
How is using a Server/User Control better than writing some VB code to
define the XHTML 1.1 output (note that I didn't say HTML3.02) and then
putting that in an <!--#include--> ?
And moreover... how do I write custom controls? (I do own VisualStudio .Net
2003 Academic (ie: Professional with an extra CD)) Because I'm planning of
writiing a pretty complex web-application (a hybrid community/gallery site,
something along the same lines as DeviantArt.com, only with less pathetic
manga artists who rant on their LiveJournals and read Megatokyo all day long)
</digress>
Anyway, so I'm basically interested in:
a) Learning what .Net is "all about"
b) How to write custom controls (preferably in VB)
c) ...And use them effectivly in an application
d) And why using .Net in this case (see my digression above) would be
preferable over, say, PHP5 (not 4) or "classic" ASP3.0
Thanks
-A Newbie