Re: More ASP.Net Newbie Questions

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From: MDW (MDW_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/29/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 07:53:04 -0800

> 2. The debugging is 100x's better too, with the ability to step through web
> sites (even on remote servers), watch variables, etc etc...

I will grant you that - I found that the error handling and error messages
were a lot more informative w/ ASP.Net.

Unfortunately, my boss has the strange fascination w/ Macromedia, so I'm
developing in MX Dreamweaver 2004. It's a competant enough program, but since
we have neither Visual Studio.Net nor VB.Net installed, any of the benefits
granted therein are unavailable to me.

I really really wish someone could explain why they had to break the
Connection and Recordset objects into, like, 37 different things. Command
object? OLEDataReader? That's really was caused me to re-examine .Net.

Seems to me like you cede a lot of control to the compiler, especially for
doing things like outputting a recordset to the screen. Sure, it takes less
code to bind it to a datagrid, but don't you lose a lot of fine tuning you
get by stepping through the Recordset? For instance, say that if the value of
the first field was less than 0, change the background color of that row in
the table to red. In classic ASP, that's very easy to do and there are
probably a million different ways to accomplish that. But when you bind data
to some sort of html control, isn't it pretty much an all-or-nothing deal?

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