.net and/or internet coding skillz

Can anyone recommend me a forum for help getting an internet (intranet actually) form coded?

By which I mean:

Name [box]
Occupation [box]
Attach a thingie [box] [browse button]

[submit button]

All I know is that we're running an ancient version of .net (v1) and the webpages with brains (i.e. not .htmls) all end .asp

I am utterly out of my depth on this...

Good evening Cheeky Charlie

OK. .asp is a language suitable for building websites, but unlike html it is not just a formatting structure, it is a language that builds each page "on the fly".

Microsoft have their own version of asp, called asp.net, but usually asp.net pages end in .aspx. Are you certain that your pages were built with asp.net and not some other third party software?

If you are sure you want to go forward with asp.net, I think that you will this forum a good place to start - it has its own asp.net sub forum.

HTH

DominicB

asp is the precursor to asp.net (.aspx)

one key difference between asp and asp.net is that the latter posts the form to itself making it easier to code (generally speaking)

asp.Net also comes with a large number of controls like the datagrid etc making binding data and building forms pretty simple ... I've not done much in 2 but have built a fair few apps in 1.1 - you used to be able to download MS WebMatrix for development purposes (if needed)

.Net 3.5 is quite commonplace thesedays ... eg PowerPivot in XL2010 requires 3.5 ... that said I still run a load of old sites/apps on 1.1 without any issues

CC, you should find you can pick up the basics of either pretty quickly...

edit: in terms of sites - I've found 4GuysFromRolla.com very helpful in the past

Are you certain that your pages were built with asp.net and not some other third party software?

I'm not sure I've articulated my ignorance clearly enough... it's written in an Adobe package, I think the intranet team use dreamweaver, I've been handed a quite astonishingly locked-down version of Contribute (which the IT department have the cheek to insist you attend a £100 cross-charged course to use, even though there are only three tools left after the functionality bowdlerisation!)

I am fairly sure that all the pages end .asp (no x). From what you've said that makes it more likely we're using asp, not asp.net (but I could have sworn someone said we were using .net... hmm).

I don't mind which language I use (and again, probably demonstrating my lack of understanding) - it's just whatever will work on the server and the team don't object to. Basically we've got some real jobsworths who rely completely on 'procedures' avoid doing anything they don't feel like. If I write the code, however, they will put it live. So I figure teaching myself a new language and doing it myself will be faster... but I am right at square one - "Which language?"

Form what you've added, DO, it would seem asp.net would be better (re: the code and the learning curve). I do know we definitely aren't running .net framework 3.5. (We're still on IE6, in a financial services co! It's like a wide open door!!!)

I suppose the question I'm reaching, based on your input is 'if I write in [any] language can I be confident that the server will be able to manage it properly?'
I will ask this question of the intranet team, but any light you can shed would be more than welcome. It would appear to be a prereq for starting work in 'the right direction'.

CC, you should find you can pick up the basics of either pretty quickly...

You flirt...

Thanks for the help!

IMHO asp is dead ... for a VBA programmer I'd say asp.NET using VB (as opposed to C) is a no-brainer and I kid ye not when I say you will be up and running in next to no time.

Hi,

Turns out we're running v1.1 and asp.net. I'm going to go ahead and give it a bash. Thanks for the advice and confidence boost. Feeling good about making an asp.net form.

Cheers