What is the best way??? Urgent!?

Question

I want to create an online sales system. I am using asp.net (preferably vb script) and Ms Access for the database.

In the database, i have stored the image and description of a product in ole object format. I want to show some product information on the webpage when i browse for books, music, etc...Like any other online sales system, the page has to be able to display the image of that product as well as the information of the products. It should also allow for search of a product. What is the best way to do this?? Should i use datagrids or is there another easier way?? This is urgent!!!

can a table be used for this...if yes, how?

Answer 1

yes use data grids.. they work well for online sites and arent too heavy on the network ..just use some mechanism to refresh the data in the datagrids by using caching techniques ...

Answer 2

If you are using .NET framework 2.0 you have several controls to display the item from the database. If you want to show all details of the product in a single page datagrid will be the best option. Datagrid also supports pagination. The datagrid also supports xslt and css for formatting.

Apart from datagrid so many controls have been available in the microsoft asp.net site for free. Please have a look into it.
http://www.asp.net/default.aspx?tabid=41

Also please go through ATLAS the new framework from microsoft for designing your website.

Answer 3

using asp.net and ms access for a website is fine if you're trying to show some family photos or something, but you need a professional website do draw in customers. if not, you're going to spend a lot of time and energy making something that nobody will be interested in. try contacting a local hiring agency for someone who has expertise in web programming. you will most likely not be able to to this on your own unless you have a strong knowledge of html, css, php and mySQL. that's 4 computer languages that you'll need to learn if you're going to forge ahead solo.

Answer 4

use datagrids