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I am a classic ASP guy. I recently took on a project that basically amounts to taking a boxed ASP.Net/VB.Net solution and modifying it to meet the needs of the client. I know that ASP.Net and ASP are not similar at all, and I have done some super light .Net stuff. (form validation controls). I am not the only resource on the job, but I don't want to bug the other guy.

I have two questions:

Should I even bother with DreamWeaver or .Net Web Matrix? or should I just get the MS Action Pack (w/ Visual Studio .Net)?

What do you recommend for getting up to speed (quickly... i.e. yesterday) to be able to modify this code that I am looking at?


Thanks!

gordon
 
answers:

1 - i primarily use visual studio 2003, and have been mostly happy with it. from one classic-asp guy to another, "breakpoint" execution is awesome to work with. i've read good things about dreamweaver 2003, but i've heard that the newer 2004mx version seems to add a lot of useless code. i've never used or heard anything about ".net web matrix", so hopefully another forum member has some insight on that app. visual studio 2002/2003 or dreamweaver should treat you fine.

2 - i was in that situation about 2 years ago. a great book i'd recommend is by "sams publishing" called "asp.net: unleashed" (not the "teach yourself in ___ timeframe" book). the book gives lots of different code examples and solutions for the same problem. if you can, look around for an online "borders" or "barnes and noble" percent-off coupon to knock a chunk off the cost of the book. though i bought it at full price and still use it regularly to this day; it's helped in countless situations.

if you run into problems, just post in the forums. good luck!
 
I use Visual Studio 2003 as well. It's a decent interface to the code, as that's where you will be spending most of your time since you're just modifying things.

Since you already have basic webdev behind you (classic ASP), .NET isn't that far advanced. It's basically like you were programming for a windows form, but instead of showing a winform, it's now a page. It's not too tough to get "up to speed" with it, unless you're going to be doing some heavy modifications. I bought a book called "Beginning ASP.NET 1.0 with Visual Basic .NET" by Wrox. It's got a lot of code examples, and I used it religiously when I was first starting.
 
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