I’m confused, so ASP.NET needs visual studios?
Posted Saturday, September 26, 2009 by admin
I want to program in the business standard. I can program in php but no matter how many times you deny it, asp.net is nearly 12 times faster then php and I don’t want to hear anything otherwise. Look up the numbers if you don’t believe me. But I got a ebook on ASP.NET 3.5 beginners and I’m not understanding it. They say it’s for beginners but they expect me already know a lot of stuff. I’m not even sure if you can program asp.net in notepad, I’m very confused. My questions-
1. Does ASP.NET need visual studios 2008 even if I’m not hosting the server? I don’t want to buy this! And I don’t want to work in a FrontPage / DreamWeaver type program; I hand write EVERYTHING and that’s that!
2. Do I need to know C#, J#, and VB script as well? It doesn’t say anything, it just assumes I know.
3. The tutorial for the ASP.NET 3.5 so far has had nothing to do with programming. It’s pretty much telling me how to use a FrontPage-like program. Is there any coding involved?
The capabilities of asp.net are very exciting. When I read the descriptions it makes me want to learn, but how can I learn when the beginners tutorials expect me to know this stuff. Where does anyone learn this in the first place? I don’t want to wait until college to learn this stuff. I’m willing to learn but have found no good teachers D:
1) Visual Studio Is built to handle asp.net, but no its not required. another editor is or perhaps this will be better:
2)I would suggest it (See below) but i suppose you could get through it without it, although i never tried since i know c,c++,and c#.
3)Yes Example is listed here:
__________ LEARNING TUTORIALS _______________
You could potentially code an ASP application with a text editor, but it would be like reinventing the wheel using nothing but kleenex. Sure you could…but why would you want to?
Get the Express editions of the VS app you want to code in. They are free, and are pricipally the same as the pay versions. The main difference is the absence of higher level functionality, such as you would find with VS Team System.