Are you not enjoying ASP.NET? It's different in some ways from what I am used to but I like it.


>Good morning John;
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>ASP.NET is more verbose. Surely that makes it a better tool for software development! :)
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>At least my company pays me to do ASP.NET. That being the case I really do not care. Why be efficient when you can be "Microsoft Compliant", and support company mandated policies and procedures at the same time? :)
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>Tom
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>>I hope I never have to learn that godawful language. Do you have to type it in that way or is it generated by a GUI builder?
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>>In the interests of clarity, I thought I'd provide sample ASP.NET code to perform similar SQL, except with none of the error checking or handling included in the PHP version:
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>>< %@ Page CompilerOptions='/R:"C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\Odbc.Net\Microsoft.data.odbc.dll"'% >
>>< %@ Import Namespace="System.Data" % >
>>< %@ Import Namespace="Microsoft.Data.Odbc" % >
>><SCRIPT Language="VB" Runat="server">
>>Sub Page_Load(Source as object, e as EventArgs)
>>Dim sConString As String = "DRIVER={MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver}; SERVER=linux3;
>>DATABASE=maindata; UID=user1; PASSWORD=user1pass; OPTION=3"
>>Dim oConnection as ODBCConnection = new ODBCConnection(sConString)
>>Dim sSQL as String = "SELECT name,contact,email,enabled,username FROM customer"
>>Dim oDataAdapter as ODBCDataAdapter = New ODBCDataAdapter(sSQL, oConnection)
>>Dim oDataSet as DataSet = new DataSet()
>>oDataAdapter.Fill(oDataSet)
>>

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>>Here's the PHP equivalent, removing variables and error checking so it's equivalent:
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>><?php
>>$connection=mysql_connect("linux3","user1","user1password");
>>$db=mysql_select_db("maindata",$connection);
>>$sql="SELECT name,contact,email,enabled,username FROM customer";
>>$result=mysql_query($sql);
>>

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>>Now we should ask a VFP person familiar with neither which is the more "godawful". ;-)