I need to code a website which will be database intensive.
The host provides mySQL database free.
Is VB .NET good for choice for coding the website?
If so, with version is best for internet applications?
2007-09-20 15:58:41 · 4 answers · asked by Indiana Jones 6 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
You don't make Web sites with VB.NET; you use ASP.NET. You can code ASP.NET with any of the .NET languages, including VB.NET, but you write an ASP.NET site, not a VB.NET site. The distinction is very important.
Yes, ASP.NET is a fine way to go about developing data-intensive Web sites, especially since it is very abstracted -- there are lots of built-in tools and controls to manipulate data, and you need not know much coding at all to make them work.
http://www.asp.net/learn/videos/
That said, ASP.NET is not necessarily better than PHP or any other server scripting language for making data-driven Web sites. It's a matter of taste, largely.
Note to previous user: Getting MySQL to work with ASP.NET is no chore at all.
Support for MySQL is built into ADO.NET via ODBC and OLE.
in ADO.NET, the same objects, methods, properties and events, just with slightly different names, are available for MySQL as are available for SQL Server and Access.
If you don't know what you are talking about, please do not answer.
2007-09-20 16:20:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Getting .NET to work with MySQL is going to be a bit of a chore for you. The best option for using .NET to create your site is to use a Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL) database as the backend.
there are components out there that will allow you to integrate w/ a MySql database, you'll just have to hunt them down.
Ideally a MySql database would have a PHP frontend for the web site language.
2007-09-20 23:05:57 · answer #2 · answered by Brandon H 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Anymore. pretty much any application can access any database.
Technically, in .NET you'd be using ASP.Net to develop a website. VB.Net is more for a desktop application.
Though in ASP.Net, you can choose to use VB.Net or C#.Net language.
Here's an article on using ASP.Net with MySQL
http://www.stardeveloper.com/articles/display.html?article=2003052201&page=1
2007-09-20 23:26:33 · answer #3 · answered by rod 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What they offer for the Application Server programming may not be ASP.NET (VB.NET is the language to write ASP.NET programming) Check again in that area, I suspect the better answer in that is PHP not ASP.NET
2007-09-20 23:23:06 · answer #4 · answered by Andy T 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋