Just thought I would start a conversation on what everyone is doing about asp.net

I have been writing dynamic sites in ASP / VBScript for over 5 years now but I have now started to see that employers are looking for ASP.NET skills as well as ASP skills.

I have started to look at the logical structure of ASP.NET and set up a couple of test sites but progress is slow when trying to work on current asp projects as well.

What is everyone else doing? Are you looking into ASP.NET as well? What problems have you encountered? Any good resource sites found?

Regards
Vince

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I only got into doing ASP/VBscrip nearly 2 yrs ago, and as soon as started to get confident enough to look at the code side of things, everyone seemed to run away and jump on the .NET wagon <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile_sad.gif border=0 align=middle>

I got a few good books, well good if you understand them anyway. But with having no real background in programming, i found it hard to take it all in, information overload. I'm gonna stick with asp for now, and see what happens in a few years, there might be a new bus to jump on.

I'm no hardcore programmer anyway, but I see what you mean about the job oppurtunities Vince, just looking at the wage structure for standard asp programmers now is poor, here in the uk it is anyway. considering before .NET asp geeks were all the rage. Looks like i'll never get a job in this sector to be honest, I've tried enough times already, I'll stick to building houses, and do my code part time.

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Dave

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I was lucky enough to be given the opportunity to move from project management to web dev in my last company, so I got 4 years experience as well as the time to teach myself asp.

I am coming back to the uk to work for a company as an Intranet / Extranet developer and one of the only reasons I managed to bag it was due to my SQL Server and mostly Oracle and AS400 connectivity knowledge.

I would say that had I not been given the chance, i would never have been able to make that move to prof work as a web developer.....counting my lucky stars now, 1,2,3......



Regards
Vince

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Sorry to get a little off topic but, BakerV I was wondering if you could spill a little of you connectivity knowledge on me. I am working on a project that is using an AS400 as the dbase. Queries are slow. I need a way to greatly improve that. I have tried ODBC connections as well as OLE DB connections. Some of the queries are required to go through 1 million records and bring back results. On SQL this works quick and slick. But on the 400 it is just pig slow. Are there any tricks you have for optomizing this?
Thanks.

I've been doing ye olde worlde ASP / VBScript for about 2 or 3 years now. Have managed to get a bit of a grip on ASP but I am seeing better opportunities for the new breed of .NET

I'm going to try to make the jump sometime this year. This book, just recently released www.sitepoint.com/books/aspnet1/ looks interesting - I have just downloaded the 1st 4 chapters to see what its all about... It might be worth a look for those that are interested.

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Simon

Edited by - ganseki on 28 Jun 2004 16:10:45

In general I've noticed a lot of DW extensions adding .NET support. For DW/MM users, I think this was a large hurdle - seeing support for .NET in products (not just default DW MX/MX2004). I know .NET 2.0 is around the corner so it'll be interesting to see what goes down.

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