I need to build a project at work. For now, I just want to do the *very* simple steps of, in DW MX 2004, connecting to ASP.NET server, having it go to Oracle, getting some rows, then sending them back and displaying them in the browser.

The Dreamweaver users guide creates examples, but doesn't really get the data displayed (it assumes some knowledge I don't have).

Can anybody point me to a complete, functioning example of this (just OleDb, doesn't have to be to Oracle) either in pure ASP.NET VB or with DW MX Objects?

Any help/tips, suggestions of resources will be appreciate. Am an experienced database guy, but am learning ASP.NET and DW MX 2004.

-billb
PS: I've got "ASP.NET Web Development with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004" on order and will be studying up more fully, but I'm just eager to get the pieces working together today.

i'm in the same position as you now, just learning to click and drop .net code.

i found it be a bit of a pain, and also a bit confusing when i got around to it, but finally managed to get my data to display.

it's as much a click and insert operation, just like using an asp page. the only other thing i had to do was when i published the site to my testing server was to go into Site > Deploy Supporting Files and this sent the .dll controls file over to the /bin folder which needs the file so .net can run locally.

you did'nt really mention a lot about your setup, but it was my first time using oledb and apart from getting .config + dreamweaverCtrl errors (this was fixed once the .dll was published) it all works now.

but speaking to a few professional .net users, they were horrified to find out i was using dwmx for my .net code :/

There is a free tool from Microsoft availabe for download called "Web Matrix" and it is a .net code writing tool, i've only used it for a day or so, but it looks good upto now.

Regards,
Dave

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