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Should I wait for ASP.Net 3.0?

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    Posted: 03 September 2007 at 9:59pm
Hi All,
 
New user to this site, so "Hi" to all here Smile
 
Have a general question about Web apps in general:
 
I have plenty of experience developing Windows apps over a number of years, and i'm used to the really smooth interfaces which it's dead easy to develop.  No flickering screens or interfaces held together with bits of js everywhere. 
 
Knocking up a couple of smaller test apps in ASP.Net 2.0, it strikes me what a huge bodge the whole thing seems.  Trying to get a simple data entry form to look anything like professional is not a simple case of dragging and dropping a textbox on the form, but seems to require messing about with style sheets and similar black artsConfused  Also, controls like the FormView seem awfully clunky and require the coder to define 3 templates to do [essentially] the same thing, which doesn't seem like progress to me.
 
All in all, despite my company's desire to have web apps (and I can completely see the attractions), I am wondering if the technology is yet easy and fast enough to use in a small shop where it's only me cutting code?  In other words, should we carry on with our trusty Win Apps for a bit longer and wait for someone to sort out the whole ASP.Net interface thing to make it RAD?
 
Any thoughts much appreciated.
 
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Asp.net has been around for some time now I think it is more than ready for deployment. .Net 3.0 is already out for some time now and just gives you enhancements in WCF and WPF (mainly) so communiction and some XAML goodness.
.Net 3.5 is what will be shipped with VS 2008 and is currently in beta. It does have quite a few advantages as most controls are natively Ajax aware. I would not wait, go and do 2.0 with Ajax and you can do some very nice interfaces.
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Many thanks for your response Michael.  From what I've read and seen of ASP.Net 2.0 it does seem a strong product - I'm just finding it surprisingly "crude" in having to wade into the HTML to get a form to look half decent.  Suppose years of just dragging a control wherever I want it and not caring how it's put there by VS has made me lazy!
 
Roll on ajax - that seems a real improvement over the current flickering nonsense - I guess it'll all be worth it in the end Smile
 
 
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PC's/laptops are less complicated than web environments. Less worry about how communications protocols works and how they affect the presentation.
With a web app you have no control over how a user sizes their browser window so explicitly placing controls is not going to work well. Same applies for other platforms that can display a web app - like my phone.

I use Visual Studio (free version) to build .net controls and functionality and then MS Expressions to create web pages that incorporate them for a variety of platforms.

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I don't think waiting for 3.5 is going to help your problem. Unfortunately, as dpyers noted, web app development is more complicated in some ways, especially when it comes to layout.
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