ASP.NET Web Matrix or VS.NET?

[Don Wash]

Hi All!

I'll be doing my first ASP.NET web project and I would like you to recommand
me whether I should use ASP.NET Web Matrix or Visual Studio.NET?

My ASP.NET application will have following features
- Requires connnection to DB (So I probably need to use ADO.NET for it?)
- Requires Web Controls (such as graphs)
- Requires to code in VB.NET or C# (as code behind)

Can ASP.NET Web Matrix fufill all those? Or do I need to get VS.NET for it?

Thanks all in advance!

Don

 

[Guest]

I suggest vs.net.

- Requires connnection to DB (So I probably need to use ADO.NET for it?) A:It doesn't matter.
- Requires Web Controls (such as graphs)

A:webmatrix can do the same thing.And I thought webmatrix hava a better way to display the webcontrol(*.ascx) than vs.net

- Requires to code in VB.NET or C# (as code behind)

--You'd better use vs.net.

Webmatrix is good too.But I think it not good for a beginner or complex applications.

 

[Don Wash]

Thanks!!

What about SharpDevelop? How does it match up with VS.NET?

Don

I suggest vs.net.

A:webmatrix can do the same thing.And I thought webmatrix hava a better

way to display the webcontrol(*.ascx) than vs.net

 

[Annick Van Hoof]

Hi All!

I'll be doing my first ASP.NET web project and I would like you to recommand
me whether I should use ASP.NET Web Matrix or Visual Studio.NET?

My ASP.NET application will have following features
- Requires connnection to DB (So I probably need to use ADO.NET for it?)
- Requires Web Controls (such as graphs)
- Requires to code in VB.NET or C# (as code behind)

Can ASP.NET Web Matrix fufill all those? Or do I need to get VS.NET for it?

Thanks all in advance!

Don

You could use both. However, keep in mind that WebMatrix has the following
limitations:
- code written in WebMatrix will not be compiled into a separate DLL
(codebehind). Thus resulting files that are combinations of code (VB.NET,
C#, ...) and HTML.
- WebMatrix still has no code completion. When you're not used to working in
ASP.NET/C#-VB.NET you will spend a lot of time in debugging and searching.

Wim

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Web Matrix is free. Visual Studio.Net is expensive. Microsoft manufactures
both products. Which one do you think is the best?

--
HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.