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David McDivitt

I have opportunity to get involved with a .net project, but haven't done any
..net yet. I'm an expert in VB6, Java, and J2EE. Could someone please
recommend some online stuff to read to get me going. I have everything
necessary to set up and write applications in .net.

What I want to find out first is the standard series of components a thread
passes through during its life, upon entering the web server. Then I need to
get a list of terms.

Thanks if you can make some recommendations.
 
David,

The Microsoft site has a free application called "web developer express" or
something like that.

It has a tone of documentation that ships with it and the help links to
resources online

the .net threads are launched in application pools I think in IIS 6.0 / 2003
server

I think the life time of threads vary alot because you can create
extensions, dlls, normal asp.net pages, code behind pages and webservices.
I found asp.net much more complex than clasic ASP but that is probably a
good thing.

In the program compilers the {system.web} seems to be related to IIS stuff.

I found this link it refers to asp.net pages, not sure if that's what you
needed.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178472.aspx

Mike.
 
Michael M. said:
From: "Michael M." <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 08:03:18 -0000
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David,

The Microsoft site has a free application called "web developer express" or
something like that.

It has a tone of documentation that ships with it and the help links to
resources online

the .net threads are launched in application pools I think in IIS 6.0 / 2003
server

I think the life time of threads vary alot because you can create
extensions, dlls, normal asp.net pages, code behind pages and webservices.
I found asp.net much more complex than clasic ASP but that is probably a
good thing.

In the program compilers the {system.web} seems to be related to IIS stuff.

I found this link it refers to asp.net pages, not sure if that's what you
needed.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178472.aspx

Mike.
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Thank you very much, Michael. Exactly what I was looking for. Being familiar
with Java, the client side will be exactly the same. That's half of it. For
the server side there should be many similarities to Java.

I found a site that provides a free "Free ASP.NET Web Development Tool". It
says the Microsoft framework is used, but everything is done with notepad.
It sounds interesting. I'm going to follow that through a bit before I
install .net. I might get more understanding that way. The site is:

http://www.voicegateway.com/faq/dotnet/gettingstarted.htm
 
David,

I think you will be happy with asp.net it makes Web page programming, very
much like application programming.

In most other server side scripting you session start, session end,
resquest, responce. and that's about it.

In asp.net alot of the controls in the web pages are wired to trigger server
side code blocks, that makes it similar to responding to events in Windows
Forms programs: it maintains state data for you and it has some nice data
repeating and listing controls so you dont have to mix your SQL in with HTML
Tables .

I was impressed with asp.net version 2, not that I use it much though.
 
To add to what Michael is suggesting - if you understand Java/J2EE then your
half way there with language syntax if you stick to C#. However, the
asp.net part of the framework is quite different to JSP for example, and
very different to how raw servlets operate, although theoretically asp.net
tags are a bit like taglibs..

I would definately recommend you read up on the asp.net pipeline - as its
how the asp.net engine works.
http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/howaspnetworks/howaspnetworks.asp

--
Regards

John Timney (MVP)
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