Newbie

[Austin Phillips]

Hello;

I am *very* new to website programming.

I come from a client/server background.(Sybase Powerbuilder).

I have been assigned a task of moving our client/server applications to the
web.

My question is this and please excuse any ignorancy on my part:

Can I use Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) Sybase SQL Server with ADO.net?

Basically, I want to use ASE vs Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle.

Thanks,
Austin

 

[Guest]

Austin,

You could use OleDB or ODBC with Sybase. Or you could use Sybase's ASE .Net
Data Provider (the preferred method).

This website will show you the connection strings to use with Sybase:

http://www.connectionstrings.com/

Kerry Moorman

 

[Austin Phillips]

Kerry;

Thank you for responding.

So far, I have used the ASP.net Login control, (although I am connecting to
EA Server and using PowerBuilder non-visual objects to connect to ASE),
and also I have successfully used the PowerBuilder Web Datawindow embedded
in asp pages. I have some simple java script to handle row selection, etc.

My web application looks alright, but I would like to try to enhance this by
trying to ?bind? ASE data to ASP.NET controls, like the datagrid, treeview,
etc. (Excuse my ignorance I am still learning web development).

Right now I am using frames with the web datawindow, with each page having
its own webdw.

I would like to see if I can replace this with tabs and ?datagrid? to give
this a more, professional web look, IMO.

Since I have never used Microsoft SQL Server, or VS, I am having difficulty
understanding how pages connect to the database, since I am used to
client/server applications connecting via Open-Client or ODBC via a DSN.

Thanks for any material you can give me to help guide me in my endeavor.

Regards,
Austin