I want to make a website using database technology. What do I have to spend for Microsoft's stuff? Maintenance?

Rough order of magnitude would be okay.

Thanks and regards

Dan

Well ASP and ASP.NET and the whole .NET Framework is free however you do need either a Windows Server platform or a Linux platform with Mono installed. I don't know how well Mono can handle .NET Framework so.

What you do need to develop ASP.NET apps (ASP Classic is old so don't go that route if you can try to)

Visual Studio.NET (Best I mean best IDE for ASP.NET, Windows Application development or Web Matrix)

An OS Supporting .NET Framework and ASP.NET.

Microsoft is having a special currently I think that comes with Windows Server 2003, VS.NET 2003 Pro, SQL Server 2000 Developers Edition for $549USD

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If your looking to get started with .NET 2.0 Framework and ASP.NET 2.0 I'd suggest getting a copy of Visual Web Developer Express - WOW is it nice or what hehe. I am currently using it to develop a beta version of my next site and it is very easy for people just starting out with .NET to get started. http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/

Don't take my word for it grab a copy yourself and see how easy it is.

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Thanks, is more affordable than I thought.

Okay let me try to sneak in a couple more freebies from you:

1. I can just cut in paste this "Windows Server 2003, VS.NET 2003 Pro, SQL Server 2000 Developers Edition" into an email to the two hosting companies I use and say "Can I run this on your host?" and not sound like an idiot?

2. Some prolly offer these included in a hosting package no?

3. The place where I live is rural but growing big time. My business idea is to make a local directory of businesses - you know name, phone, category, web, services, etc. Is there a break even point of number of listings where I should just use an excel spreadsheet and make html by hand versus using the the full blown asp? I guess this is sort of a business case analysis.

4. I am assuming asp technology will give a website search feature. Correct?

Thanks

Dirt, Sounds like something of that nature could easily be handled with Access and it'd save you a few bucks too. If you're using Dreamweaver there are some pretty good tutorials out there that'll walk you through the process and save a bunch of pea stress.

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Cool. Yeah I get the scary feeling I am thinking of buy an Aston Martin to pick up the groceries....

but my "inspiration" was this site http://www.holidays.org.uk/ which I am guessing uses php and mysequel? Aren't those two like the open source versions of asp stuff?

Not familiar with dreamweaver but I will do a go google on it.

Dreamweaver's UI No Offence sucks for ASP.NET Development. It's weak for ASP.NET Development.

Also another free thing is Web Matrix I forgot to tell you about http://asp.net/webmatrix/default.as...ndex=4&tabId=46. I am not sure how many host support the .NET 2.0 framework currently so. But what you are looking at doing would be very simple in ASP.NET 2.0 and ASP.NET.

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hella link thanks. I actually understand some of the stuff on that page lol, no seriously I do.


mmmm 'lightweight personal web server' now there's toy I would love to play with... Now where did the wife hide her purse....

There are a lot of hosts that let you use a shared version of their SQL server. You can probably get a decent host for like $19.95 a month that include a SQL database.

Unless you want a dedicated server. If you are going that route, then you'll need to give them the licensed application.

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Thanks "what you said" That is the terminology I was trying to say. If your directory is what asp can do that is hella cool.

Sharp looking directory by the way, you have earned a spot on the highly uh hem coveted internet advertising link at my blog. Hey it helped get seo guy get number 1 in google for seo...