Some Thoughts on ASP.net

[Ashish]

Originally Posted by eCommando

Hi,
I am looking for Hosting with the following?
Is it possible:
Price: Under $20/mo. I already have a host that provides the following. But I need to set up more sites on a different IP block.

Windows 2003 Server
Unlimited Domains
Unmetered / unlimited traffic
MS-SQL - 4 databases (min 100 Megs)
500+ Meg Disk Space (preferably 1 Gig)
Needs to install 1 custom DLL, easy to set up.

Hi e-commando,

Sorry for the late reply i was away for a little while
'Unlimited Domains'
'Unmetered / unlimited traffic'
Every thing has a limit even physical things

[Ashish]

Originally Posted by Johan007

Ashish has performance improved at m6.net - I had to move many domains from them because of downtime and slow servers. I remember an asp to .net implementation of one of my simple sites and OMG we had to go back to ASP because .net would run so slow on m6 that it was unusable!

Dear Johan,

Every web hosting company has down times, if their services would be up all the times then people would not change their web hosts, almost everyone changes their web hosting compaines from time to time because they experience certain problems which can range from downtime to almost anything else.

ASP.NET has been known to run slow at first run, it takes a pretty good amount of time to load for the first time and after that it runs pretty fast.

[Ashish]

Hi all,

This is a wrap up of the rest of the web server controls.


Repeater - It displays the items from a source defined by you in a certain template way, It does not have a predefined way/template for displaying data by itself, you have to define one yourself before using it.

Table - Use this to create a table, used along with the next two controls to make a proper table. You can insert HTML elements like 'text' and/ or controls into a table.

Table Cell - Creates in a cell in a table created with the Table Control.

Table Row - Inserts a row in a table that has been created with the use of Table Control.

Text Box - Inserts a text box, you can define it to be multi-line text box or single line by changing its 'TextMode' property.

Xml - Reads from an XML file and then puts the output from the resultant code onto the web page at the specified position.

Any suggestions/corrections/additions welcome

Some information from http://www.411asp.net

[Johan007]

Originally Posted by Ashish

Dear Johan,

Every web hosting company has down times, if their services would be up all the times then people would not change their web hosts, almost everyone changes their web hosting compaines from time to time because they experience certain problems which can range from downtime to almost anything else.

ASP.NET has been known to run slow at first run, it takes a pretty good amount of time to load for the first time and after that it runs pretty fast.

I was hoping that you would reply saying something along the lines of how you have fixed the problems of two years ago that effected not only me but 2 of my clients on separate accounts! To deny that you ever had problems shows me what a patronising bs reply you came up with OR you have admitted your hosting is as bad as everyone, but I am with 2 hosts that’s fast and reliable ASP and .net.

[Ashish]

Dear johan,

Please just tell me one thing, two years ago, when you were with us, was .NET a mature technology???????????

Didn’t everyone have various problems with .NET? wasn’t it said that ‘MS had introduced a disaster’?

I think you are forgetting that it takes time for anything to be mature, no one is born mature, they grow mature as time goes by.

[Ashish]

Hi all,

Just wanted to tell something to all the newbies about the various HTML server controls.

Normally, all HTML elements in a ASP.NET file are treated as normal text, however, in order to process a HTML element at the server, you need to add a runat = "server" property in the form and the Html tags.

Once you do that you can programmatically control a Html element, in fact all the HTML controls allow you to control some or the other Html tag at the server.

Here is a list of the various HTML server controls along with the Html tag that they control.

HtmlAnchor - Used for controlling the <a> tag, which is associated with hyper linking.

HtmlButton - Controls the <button> tag.

HtmlForm - Controls forms.

HtmlGeneric - All those Html controls for which there is no specific Html server control are handled by this control, for ex: <body>, <div>, <span>, etc.

HtmlImage - Controls the image tags.

HtmlInputButton - Controls the submit, reset & button HTML elements.

HtmlInputCheckBox - Controls the checkbox element.

HtmlInputFile - Controls the file element.

HtmlInputHidden - Controls the hidden element.

Any suggestion/Corrections/Additions welcome

Some info from www.411asp.net & www.aspalliance.com

[Johan007]

In England we have a saying that the customer is always right. The fact you think I am misinformed is totally patronising. One of my clients www.eurocarsbushey.com was a simple ASP site (not .net) and he would phone me saying the site is down all the time and eventually had to move hosts to a good one. The database connectivity was a nightmare on his site and I forgot I had a PHP site and phpbb would take 12-20 seconds to post something after you pressed the button. You deny there is a problem so you have done nothing to improve the service.

[Ashish]

Dear Johan,

Please do not misunderstand, if you have had a bad experience then we want to do everything possible to improve the experience, please tell me or PM me the user name/ password that you had with us at that time, i really want to check the figures and the data etc. of that time.

Customer is definitely always right, his needs should be taken care of first and like I said we want to do everything possible so that the customer either present or former has a great hosting experience with us, but don’t you agree that there are times that the customer might not be wrong but misinformed or might have a misunderstanding?

There are lots of factors that contribute to a customer not having a satisfactory experience with a product or service and one of the biggest is misunderstanding of information conveyed to him/her, gaps in communication, plus of course there are sometimes problems within the company itself.

If every person is 100% satisfied then they wont have to change hosts, would they?? Almost every day people change their hosts because of something that they do not like about their present hosting company, visit http://www.dailychanges.com, you will understand what I am trying to say here

Again, I sympathise with you for having an unsatisfactory experience with our services.

Thanks & good luck for your future experiences

[Ashish]

Hi all,


Some more HTML Server Controls.


HtmlInputImage - Use this when the browser does not support DHTML and/or the HtmlButton, this control is used for the <input type="image"> HTML element allowing you to Create a graphical button, i.e. you can create a button using a image, instead of a regular button.

HtmlInputRadioButton - Controls the <input type="radio">, use this to create & control radio buttons on a web page, you can group multiple radio buttons together using the 'name' property, just provide the same value, once radio buttons are grouped together, you can only select one button from that group, i.e. you are allowed to make only one choice.

HtmlInputText - Controls <input type="text"> and <input type="password"> HTML elements, text boxes are created on the page with the use of this control. When the input type is set to 'password' the values entered in the text field are masked i.e. instead of numbers and word '*' are displayed. These controls are normally used to accept inputs from the user.

HtmlSelect - Controls a <select> HTML element i.e. a drop down list box, you can also specify this drop down box to be either just a list box using the 'size property' or a multiple selection list box by using the 'multiple' property, in which case it ceases to be a drop-down box and just becomes a list box.


Any suggestions/corrections/comment welcome

Some information from www.411asp.net

[Ashish]

Hey everyone,

Just finishing off the rest of the HTML server controls.

HtmlTable - Controls the <table> HTML element, allows you to customise a HTML table on a page by giving access to various table properties like background colour, border colour, visibility, inner html etc. etc. this control is normally used in conjunction with the table row and table cell control.

HtmlTableRow - Controls the <tr> HTML element, after creating the table, you need to put rows into it and then you place the data in a cell of that row, the HtmlTableRow is used after the HtmlTable control and allows you to manipulate the rows in a table by giving access to various properties like the background colour of the table row, its height etc.

HtmlTableCell - Controls the <td>and <th> HTML tags. This is the last of the table controls in HTML controls, this control is normally used after the HtmlTableRow control has been used i.e. this one manipulates the actual data inside a cell, this too gives access to cell properties like background colour, alignment etc.

HtmlTextArea - Controls a <textarea> HTML tag. Manipulates the multi line textbox crated using the <textarea> tag. you can adjust the height and width of the textarea etc.

Any suggestions/corrections/comment welcome

Some information from www.411asp.net & www.w3schools.com

[Ashish]

Hi all,

Just wanted to talk a bit about ASP.Net Event Handlers:

An event handler is basically a action that takes place after a event is triggered i.e. a piece of code of executed following some action triggered by the user.

For example: After clicking on the ‘Submit’ button on a web page, all the information in the various fields on that page are submitted back to the server. So, the event here is the clicking of the ‘Submit’ button and the action to that is submission of the information back to the user.

Another example could be, that a piece of code is executed every time a page is loaded.

As piece of code here could be to display the current time and date every time a page is loaded, you can easily do this by using the ‘Page_Load’ event handler of ASP.NET and then writing the relevant code in it

Any comments/suggestions/corrections welcome

Some information from www.411asp.net

[Ashish]

Hello Everyone,

For sometime now, I have been posting various things in this thread about ASP.NET.

However now I feel the time is ripe to stop talking about it, as already much has been said.

For those who are interested in learning more about ASP.NET, here is a list of sites in no particular order that I have found extremely useful myself.

www.w3schools.com
www.aspalliance.com
www.411asp.net
www.codewanker.com
www.msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net
www.4guysfromrolla.com
www.asp101.com
www.asp.net

Hope you all have a great time learning ASP.NET, Good Luck & Have fun

[dasp]

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